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Webster 1913 Edition

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(părˊȧ-sī′tȧ)

Noun.

pl.

[NL.]

(Zool.)

(a)

An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc.

(b)

A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also

Siphonostomata

See also: parasitá

parasita

parasita m f (plural parasitas)

parasita

Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of parasitar.
Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of parasitar.
Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of parasitar.