parasite englanniksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-englanti)

(pejorative) A person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back.
(biology) an organism that lives on or in another organism, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism.
(literary, poetic) A climbing plant which is supported by a wall, trellis etc.

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.
Lice, fleas, ticks and mites are widely spread parasites.
Her golden tresses shade / The bosom’s stainless pride, / Curling like tendrils of the parasite / Around a marble column.

Monikko

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