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- English Word Paraselene Definition A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. Parhelion.
- English Word Parasita Definition An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc.
- English Word Parasita Definition A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata.
- English Word Parasital Definition Of or pertaining to parasites; parasitic.
- English Word Parasite Definition One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant.
- English Word Parasite Definition A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte.
- English Word Parasite Definition A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia.
- English Word Parasite Definition An animal which lives during the whole or part of its existence on or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc.
- English Word Parasite Definition An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager.
- English Word Parasite Definition An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo.
- English Word Parasitic Definition Alt. of Parasitical
- English Word Parasitical Definition Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic.
- English Word Parasitical Definition Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3.
- English Word Parasiticide Definition Anything used to destroy parasites.
- English Word Parasitism Definition The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite.
- English Word Parasitism Definition The state of being parasitic.
- English Word Parasol Definition A kind of small umbrella used by women as a protection from the sun.
- English Word Parasol Definition To shade as with a parasol.
- English Word Parasolette Definition A small parasol.
- English Word Parasphenoid Definition Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals.
- English Word Parasphenoid Definition The parasphenoid bone.
- English Word Parastichy Definition A secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in a pine cone.
- English Word Parasynaxis Definition An unlawful meeting.
- English Word Parasynthetic Definition Formed from a compound word.
- English Word Paratactic Definition Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.
- English Word Parataxis Definition The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to syntax.
- English Word Paratheses Definition of Parathesis
- English Word Parathesis Definition The placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition.
- English Word Parathesis Definition A parenthetical notice, usually of matter to be afterward expanded.
- English Word Parathesis Definition The matter contained within brackets.