Parasite: nm and adj. A parasite is an animal or plant organism that lives at the expense of another (called a host), harming it, but without destroying it (unlike a predator).
A parasitic plant is a plant that depends for its mineral and organic nutrition on another plant, the host plant. Hemiparasites, which via their leaves elaborate the products of photosynthesis, depend on the host plant solely for the supply of mineral substances.
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