Adjective
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of plants or persons
having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech
living off another
"a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses"
"parasitic vines that strangle the trees"
"bloodsucking blackmailer"
"his indolent leechlike existence"
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of or pertaining to epenthesis
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relating to or caused by parasites
"parasitic infection"