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parasite: an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host

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leisure class collapse

idle rich collapse

nonworker collapse: a person who does nothing

retinue collapse

bloodsucker collapse

sponger collapse: a workman employed to collect sponges

panhandler collapse: a beggar who approaches strangers asking for money

barnacle collapse: marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces

attendance collapse: the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.); the number of people that are present; "attendance was up by 50 per cent"; the frequency with which a person is present; "a student's attendance is an important factor in her grade"

louse collapse: wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals

moocher collapse: someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)

cadger collapse

entourage collapse

freeloader collapse: someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others

flatterer collapse: a person who uses flattery

flea collapse: any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap

scrounge collapse: collect or look around for (food)

cortege collapse: the group following and attending to some important person; a funeral procession

pursuer collapse: a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture; "always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers"; a person who pursues some plan or goal; "a pursuer of truth"

henchman collapse

toadstool collapse: common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom)

wort collapse: unfermented or fermenting malt; usually used in combination: `liverwort'; `milkwort'; `whorlywort'

kelp collapse: large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds

liana collapse: a woody climbing usually tropical plant

vetch collapse: any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants

pea collapse: seed of a pea plant used for food; a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds; the fruit or seed of a pea plant

puffball collapse: any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature

saprophyte collapse: an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium

creeper collapse: any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet; any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping

seaweed collapse: plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae

bracken collapse: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan; fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions

ward heeler collapse

nit collapse: egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing; a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source

hanger on collapse

fern collapse: any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores

vine collapse: a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

lumpen proletariat collapse

courtier collapse: an attendant at the court of a sovereign

algae collapse

successor collapse: a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone; a person who inherits some title or office; a person who follows next in order; "he was President Lincoln's successor"

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