Clues for the word "PARASITE"
We've had 44 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 69 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on September 15, 2025.
Definition of parasite
- n. - One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant.
- n. - A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte.
- n. - A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia.
- n. - An animal which lives during the whole or part of its existence on or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc.
- n. - An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager.
- n. - An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo.
Referring Clues
- Mooch
- Leech
- Tick or flea, e.g.
- Moocher
- Host's bane
- Leech or tapeworm, e.g.
- Host's counterpart
- What a host holds
- Dog flea, e.g.
- Bloodsucker
- One in a dependent relationship?
- Sponge
- Flea, to a dog
- Leach
- Host's least favorite guest?
- Organism that lives on another
- Sponger
- Ruination of parties, a hanger-on can be
- Hanger-on at location of Red Devils?
- Hanger-on?
- Cadger takes cut as it splits
- The ruination of parties a sprig of mistletoe can be
- One in a dependent relationship?
- Soldier's plot to be a freeloader
- Live-in companion for knock-up, as it is with 18
- Leech and Peel having a sit-in
- Ride in 8 without daughter, a sponger
- Louse cast as pirate
- Sucker cast as pirate
- Spoiled parties, a freeloader
- Hanger-on ruined pair's tea
- One taking advantage of a below-average location
- U-turn from host
- Palme d'Or winner for Bong Joon-ho
- 2019 film with a "metaphorical" rock
- 2019 film that won Best Picture
- "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" [2019]
- Tick, e.g.
- Bong Joon-ho film about a family that insinuates itself into a wealthy household
- First foreign-language film to win Best Picture
- Flea, e.g.
- Flea or tapeworm, or a Bong Joon-ho movie
- Organism that lives off another
- First non-English-language film to win Best Picture
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - September 15, 2025
- Daily Quick - September 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 01, 2025
- New York Times - August 17, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 12, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - March 20, 2025
- Daily American - October 15, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - September 15, 2024
- Daily American - July 27, 2024
- Daily Quick - July 07, 2024
- Your Life Choices - April 16, 2024
- Mirror Daily - April 15, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 06, 2023
- Your Life Choices - July 04, 2023
- New York Times - May 15, 2023
- USA Today - March 21, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - December 29, 2022
- Daily American - October 15, 2022
- Daily American - July 27, 2022
- Mirror Daily - July 21, 2022
- Your Life Choices - July 19, 2022
- Daily Quick - July 07, 2022
- Mirror Daily - June 09, 2022
- New York Times - February 19, 2022
- Guardian Quick - January 19, 2018
- Your Life Choices - September 28, 2017
- Daily Quick - September 06, 2017
- USA Today - February 08, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - January 02, 2017
- Guardian Quick - January 30, 2016
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