PARASITES | • parasites n. Plural of parasite. • PARASITE n. an organism that lives and feeds on another. |
MARCASITES | • marcasites n. Plural of marcasite. • MARCASITE n. sulphide of iron in orthorhombic crystals. |
PALLASITES | • pallasites n. Plural of pallasite. • PALLASITE n. any of a class of stony-iron meteorites composed largely of olivine crystals enclosed in a network of nickel-iron. |
PARGASITES | • pargasites n. Plural of pargasite. • PARGASITE n. a dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or hornblende. |
BASTNASITES | • bastnasites n. Plural of bastnasite. • bastnäsites n. Plural of bastnäsite. • BASTNASITE n. (Swedish) a reddish-brown fluorite of cerium, also BASTNAESITE. |
DYSCRASITES | • DYSCRASITE n. a mineral consisting of antimony and silver. |
POLYBASITES | • polybasites n. Plural of polybasite. • POLYBASITE n. a grey to black mineral consisting of a sulphide of silver, antimony, and copper in the form of platelike monoclinic crystals. |
THAUMASITES | • THAUMASITE n. a mineral, hydrated silicate, carbonate and sulphate of calcium. |
EXOPARASITES | • exoparasites n. Plural of exoparasite. • EXOPARASITE n. a parasite, such as the flea, that lives on the outer surface of its host. |
ECTOPARASITES | • ectoparasites n. Plural of ectoparasite. • ECTOPARASITE n. a parasite that lives on the surface of animals. |
ENDOPARASITES | • endoparasites n. Plural of endoparasite. • ENDOPARASITE n. a parasite that lives inside an animal. |
HEMIPARASITES | • hemiparasites n. Plural of hemiparasite. • HEMIPARASITE n. a parasitic plant capable of limited photosynthetic production of sugars etc. |
HOLOPARASITES | • holoparasites n. Plural of holoparasite. |
SEMIPARASITES | • semiparasites n. Plural of semiparasite. • SEMIPARASITE n. a partial parasite, feeding partly independently. |
HYPERPARASITES | • hyperparasites n. Plural of hyperparasite. • HYPERPARASITE n. a parasite that is parasitic upon another parasite. |
MICROPARASITES | • microparasites n. Plural of microparasite. • MICROPARASITE n. a very small parasite. |