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معنى كلمة parasite بالعربي

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النطق: /ˈpæɹəˌsaɪt/ | /ˈpɛɹəˌsaɪt/

parasite

A parasite is a tiny animal or plant that attaches to another animal to get food.

The sick dog was covered in parasites.

Lice, fleas, ticks, and mites are widely spread parasites.
...and the mistletoe crept round many of the oaks—that pleasant parasite, whose associations belong rather to the hearth and lighted hall than to its native branches.
It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
Yiannas said there has been widespread public confusion about cyclosporiasis, an intestinal illness caused by the microscopic parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis, also known as cyclospora, that can cause explosive diarrhea.
He lacks, however, even the basic Dr. Kildare lingo about medical issues. For instance, he regularly misidentifies poppers as amyl nitrate, instead of amyl nitrite — two forms of heart medicine with different affects ^([sic]). Salmonella, a bacteria, is not usually classified as a parasite. And he mistakenly writes, "lenti means slow" in the lentiviruses. ("Lenti" means lens-shaped, biologists classify by structure, not by behavior.)

bloodsucker, bludger, bummer, freeloader, free rider, gadfly, leech, mooch, moocher, scrounge, scrounger, scunge

parasites, parasiting, parasited