| 单词 | parasitical |
| 例句 | With the worthless parasitical human beings gone, there was more for everyone to eat. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The parasitical British administration kept tentacling out to half of the subcontinent. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was going to become one of the most depraved parasitical hustlers among New York’s eight million people—four million of whom work, and the other four million of whom live off them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Wagner has been accused of many things in the past, but parasitical infection is a new one to add to the list. Has Gustavo Dudamel fallen from his pedestal? 2010-06-02T15:20:00Z One of the great movies about vampires, which Abel Ferrara reimagines as a parasitical cult of addiction, a pyramid scheme for spreading evil. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z His repeated motifs of huddling parasitical lovers or bedside bereavement are looked at cinematically. This week's new exhibitions in pictures 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z Readers will get a sharp sense of its folkways; its unwritten rules and adhocracies; its hardy but mostly parasitical economy, based on smuggled goods and the resale of United Nations rations. Review: In ‘City of Thorns,’ Ben Rawlence Tells a Refugee Camp’s Story 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Assange understands the encroachments of the parasitical surveillance state into private communications as state violence enabled by corporate collaboration. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z An installation by Onejoon Che documents colossal Socialist Realism-style sculptures made by a North Korean design corporation for cities in Africa, art projects that lay the groundwork for parasitical economic links. Review: New Museum Triennial Casts a Wary Eye on the Future 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z In outsourcing their lives, all the cooking and cleaning and caring for their children, the Parks are as parasitical as their humorously opportunistic interlopers. ‘Parasite’ Review: The Lower Depths Rise With a Vengeance 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z It is helpful, because viruses are fundamentally parasitical, to understand their day-to-day existence through a framework similar to that used for comprehending other parasites. Are viruses alive? Why a seemingly simple biology question is so hard to answer 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z And there was Samuel Scott — taking a break from Brighteon videos that falsely asserted the coronavirus vaccine contained a parasitical and possibly self-aware organism — so that he could attend the service of his lifelong neighbor. The vaccine tore her family apart. Could a death bring them back together? 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Ivermectin was developed as a treatment for parasitical diseases, mostly for veterinarians, though it’s also used against some human parasites. Column: Major study of Ivermectin, the anti-vaccine crowd's latest COVID drug, finds 'no effect whatsoever' 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Jefferson charged that the judiciary act was “a parasitical plant engrafted” on the “judicial body” as a last-ditch effort to thwart him. Adams chose a new chief justice just before leaving office. Jefferson was furious. 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Putin is not responsible for the destructive influence of the "military-industrial complex," an anti-democratic and parasitical leech on government, culture, and infrastructure that President Dwight Eisenhower first admonished in 1961. Get over your Russia obsession, liberals: Vladimir Putin's not responsible for America's sorry state 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z In contrast, he’s quite critical of the expat community in San Miguel de Allende, made up of “foreigners, fairly well-off and living in a bubble, by its very nature privileged and parasitical.” Review: What happened when Paul Theroux bought an old Buick and set out across Mexico 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Capitalists saw feudal aristocrats as lazy, parasitical and incompetent, while aristocrats considered capitalists upstarts, who grubbingly worked for money, and lacked grace, refinement and manners. In extreme crises, conservatism can turn to fascism. Here's how that might play out 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z When they pretend single payer could cost more than our present parasitical system, they do Trump’s and the devil’s work. Are the Democrats divided? No — they're poised to win big if they don't screw it up 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Such constant “predation,” he suggested, soon became the “habitual, conventional resource” of the parasitical class. The man who saw Trump coming a century ago 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z The most profitable kind is commercial fraud, and commercial fraud is parasitical on the overall health of the business sector on which it preys. How to get away with financial fraud 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z This is the sweet spot, how do you develop a parasitical approach to the relationship without killing the host. Why Are Our Most Important Teachers Paid the Least? 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z It is essentially self-serving and parasitical in nature. Welcome Back, Wall Street. Now Pay Us Back. 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Social media, a neutral host body for parasitical insanity, have turned their algorithmic gaze upon him. ‘Pizzagate’ shows how fake news hurts real people 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Relationships founder or stall; families fail; love is precarious or fanatical and unstable; children are largely horrid and parasitical; people drink too much, and then they die. Joy Williams’s Refractory Brilliance 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z “Here we have this guy who is 33, who has been to Geneva for a couple years, who has got no executive experience whatsoever, basically running this parasitical economy, which isn’t functioning very well.” After Nuclear Test, China Resists Pressure to Curb North Korea 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z "The big question is, are these apps providing added value for readers and publishers, or are they just another parasitical kind of aggregator," asked Dominic Ponsford, editor of the Press Gazette site. Yahoo prodigy faces big decision 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z He just wishes to provide a check on capitalism's tendency to create a useless class of parasitical rentiers. Savage capitalism is back – and it will not tame itself 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Great spotted cuckoos are also parasitical on carrion crows, but as crow chicks are much larger than cuckoos they are never out-competed and crow parents always manage to raise a few young of their own. Cuckoo Chicks Bring Benefits to Nests They Parasitize 2014-03-26T21:45:00Z If there is a group most deserving of the label "benefit scrounger", it is these parasitical companies. The G8 could act radically to stop tax avoidance. Don't bet on it 2013-06-16T05:00:01Z Now cash-strapped newspapers want to put legal pressure on what they see as parasitical news aggregators. Newspapers versus Google: Taxing times 2012-11-08T16:00:19Z “Euroskepticism is rising, and there is a sense of ‘We pay our taxes and they do not,’ that the southern countries are being parasitical on us.” Dutch Voters May Point Way for Rest of Europe 2012-09-12T03:35:13Z Next in order of date and complication, which always goes on loading the narrative more and more with fantastic and parasitical details, comes the version in the enormous epic of Mahâbhârata. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z But there is a wealth of parasitical life. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z I have known these birds to breed in April and May, and these very late nests escape the infliction of parasitical eggs. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z Ergot, ėr′got, n. a disease, consisting of a parasitical fungus, found on the seed of certain plants, esp. rye and some other grasses.—ns. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z The solid balls of these cannon formed pyramids, and parasitical vegetation had crept in between these iron spheres. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z We could multiply this instance a thousandfold; but why give a list of all the predatory and parasitical creatures on this planet, from human tyrants and despoilers down to cholera microbes? The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z They are very numerous in the damp woods of tropical America, and reside by day in the tufts of those parasitical plants, which form reservoirs for rain-water. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Possibly, if it ever hatches the parasitical egg at all, the voracious young Cow-bird is starved by the delicate food supplied by its foster-parents. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z Like parasitical plants they each require a certain species to grow on, and cannot spread where these are not found. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Around this, on our side and to the left, was the bush, the peculiar and splendid trees, and parasitical plants composing it, lending a powerful aid to the general picturesqueness of the scene. Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs 2011-08-04T02:00:26.337Z Others, adorned with parasitical plants, intertwined with graceful vines and fragrant with flowers, afford a paradise for birds of the most brilliant plumage, and give indescribable richness and beauty to the scene. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z Some trolls have become nearly as famous as the blogs to which they attach themselves, in a curious, parasitical kind of relationship. Online commenting: the age of rage 2011-07-23T23:04:08Z They breed on the ground under the grass, and conceal their nest so well that I doubt whether the parasitical Molothrus ever finds it. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z Like ourselves, they die of consumptive, tubercular, cancerous, eruptive, typhoid, and parasitical diseases. On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z It's an infection caused by a parasitical worm which is spread by the bites of blackflies which breed in fast-flowing water. Health benefits 2011-06-11T18:51:51Z The vine attains to a luxuriant growth, so as often to destroy the largest trees in its parasitical embrace. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z Love fastens its parasitical roots to all other feelings. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z I have often carefully examined all the parasitical eggs in a nest, and after three or four days found that these eggs had disappeared, others, newly laid, being in their places. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z So the key to the revolution was the disproportionately high unemployment of young Arabs and their dissatisfaction with a parasitical state. Egypt: The Revolution Blows Up 2011-06-05T05:00:00Z A destructive parasitical weed has made its appearance on some of the small farms at Navarina, an open district forming a part of the very extensive manor of Lord Ashburton, at Thetford. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z His attitude of countenancing the positive joys of living causes Maeterlinck in his later career to reverse his former judgment, and to inveigh, much in the manner of Nietzsche, against the “parasitical virtues.” Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z These lumps are to be found on plants in perfect health, and are not parasitical in any hostile sense. Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them 2011-05-10T02:00:58.433Z In some nests found full of parasitical eggs every egg has holes pecked in the shell, for the bird destroys indiscriminately eggs of its own and of other species. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z In spite of the pride and boasted national independence of its citizens, the whole system of manners at Rome was parasitical. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z I suppose I must be parasitical by nature, for I never have conceived of life as other than dependent on some man who would love me and take care of me. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z Such parasitical existences more than aught else have brought literature into disrepute in middle class German life, because the German cannot bring himself to admire that which in other respects he despises! Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z The inevitable obtrusive organ-case is of the seventeenth century, and like all of its kind is a parasitical abomination, clinging precariously to the western wall. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z The altered conditions have, in various ways, served to remove many extraneous checks on the parasitical instinct, and the more the birds multiply, the more irregular and disordered does the instinct necessarily become. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z Festoons of creeping and parasitical plants hung from branch to branch. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z It was growing in its favourite situation,—the Gapo,—its top festooned, as we have said, with scores of parasitical plants, of many different species, forming a complete labyrinth of limbs, leaves, fruits, and flowers. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical plants, the beauty of the flowers, the glossy green of the foliage, but above all the general luxuriance of the vegetation, filled me with admiration.' Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z The inner man is at times a tyrant, parasitical, wasteful, and voluptuous. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z Probably this is the only parasitical species in which there is conjugal fidelity. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z This animal is the victim of many parasitical insects—of ticks and larvae. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z The strait itself might have been likened to a canal, running through a thicket, which formed on both sides a colossal hedge, laced together by an impenetrable network of parasitical plants. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z He is keener to talk about this area than the battle with newspaper groupss such as News International, whose paywall model is partly based on what it considers Google's parasitical attitude to original content. Eric Schmidt: smartphones are the future for Google and the world 2010-06-28T06:00:00Z He has excoriated state political leaders as “a parasitical ruling class” and pledged to send corrupt legislators to the state prison at Attica. Carl Paladino, a Conservative, Joins Governor?s Race 2010-04-06T02:58:00Z To this wonderful parasitical instinct we may well apply Darwin’s words, when speaking of the architecture of the hive-bee:—“Beyond this stage of perfection natural selection could not lead.” Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z The garden, overgrown with parasitical plants, seemed wholly neglected. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 But they knew there was no land,—nothing but tree-tops laced together with llianas, and supporting heavy masses of parasitical plants. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z He had ridiculed parsons as the most parasitical of all men, and yet here he was about to hand over to one of them the only human treasure he possessed. The Cottage of Delight A Novel “There are a race of creatures there, small, parasitical insects, who hang about the hall and the boulevard outside—guides they call themselves.” The Missioner And inasmuch as their preservation is inimical to the species on which they are parasitical, there must also here be a struggle. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z He then tore down a number of parasitical creepers, which were almost as tough and pliant as so many cords, and began binding the logs together by their means. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa In the first place, I argued that insanity is due to a specific poison, a toxalbumen, and that this poison is a result of parasitical action. A Modern Wizard In many of the parasitical mushrooms the stem is absent. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous His rights were protected but poorly by the edicts of the Emperor and the city of Nuremberg; and a swarm of parasitical copyists reproduced every fresh design as soon as it was published. Dürer Artist-Biographies Thus, in whatever way we view the parasitical habit, it appears cruel, treacherous, and vicious in the highest degree. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z Two horns pierce the narrow skull, a flowing beard descends from his face to his knees like a parasitical vine attached to a great tree. Michelangelo It was difficult for a man, when moving along these paths, to see many yards on either side, the underwood, briers, and parasitical plants, being matted together like a hedge. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa Though the Bacchanalian abuses were thus strenuously dealt with by the Roman authorities, this and other like parasitical growths which fastened themselves upon the religious instincts of the people were not to be shaken off. Roman Women Outside the barrier of shimmering electricity, scores of animals and birds dominated by the dreaded little gray parasitical creatures were now swarming. The World with a Thousand Moons I have frequently found their nests full of parasitical eggs, as many as fourteen and in one case sixteen, eggs in one nest. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z While the plants, on which the fungus grew, differentiated into two closely related species, in two at present widely separated but formerly connected radii of distribution, the parasitical Exobasidium remained outwardly unaltered. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations This sublimity, belonging in a parasitical manner to the building, renders it, in the usual sense of the word, "picturesque." Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Not a few animals and plants are parasitical, and can only live in the interior or on the outside of other plants and animals. The Coming of Evolution The Story of a Great Revolution in Science They had it all figured out, in their own parasitical, cold-blooded way. Collectivum In some seasons all the nests I found and watched were eventually abandoned by the birds on account of the number of parasitical eggs dropped in them. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z Why, therefore, ignore economic foundations and waste effort remodeling the parasitical superstructure? Violence and the Labor Movement The cutter and her parasitical escort kicked up enough wake for a Cardiff ore-steamer. The Recipe for Diamonds On the other hand, beauty cannot be parasitical. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) The tree may be parched and blistered in the heat of noonday, but the parasitical fungus draining its sap remains cool—and poisonous. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series The nest was in a cardoon bush, and contained five eggs—two of the Yellow-breast and three parasitical. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z There are vast multitudes in the Church whose religious life—if indeed they have such a life—is absolutely parasitical. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching There was until recently in existence in the United States one guild, or association, representing a purely parasitical trade—that of ticket-scalping—which was fortunately practically peculiar to the United States. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations In the “Seven Lamps” I defined the picturesque to be “parasitical sublimity,” or sublimity belonging to the external or accidental characters of a thing, not to the thing itself. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) They are not the creations of a God; they are the parasitical images of type. Berenice Doubtless it would be highly prejudicial to the parasitical birds laying white eggs, but favourable to those laying mottled eggs. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z There are parasitical writers who, in the old phrase, have 'formed their style,' by the imitation of accepted models, and who have, therefore, possessed it only by right of appropriation. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) And, as has before happened when that irresistible potentiality, the people, has been stirred into action, the Church was disestablished, its property confiscated, and its meddling, parasitical clergy disenfranchised. Carmen Ariza But as a mere cottage roof, it cannot be sublime, and whatever sublimity it derives from the wildness or sternness which the mountains have given it in its covering, is, so far forth, parasitical. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) If this were true, it would make the cowbird only half parasitical—an unheard-of phenomenon. Ways of Nature The parasitical Cow-bird never enters this nest, which is not strange. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z He detested the monks, regarding them for the most part as illiterate, bigoted, persecuting, and parasitical vermin. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Yellow and purple blossoms, in a riot of ineffable splendor, bedecked the lofty trees and tangled parasitical creepers that wrapped around them, constituting veritable hanging gardens. Carmen Ariza From his lonely channel rock, in the bitter grandeur of exile, Victor Hugo hurled the lightnings and thunders of his denunciation at the political burglar of France and his parasitical minions. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) So far as I know, no bird does eject this parasitical egg, and no other bird besides the yellow warbler gets rid of it in the way I have described. Ways of Nature You don’t know all my dreams for the American woman––don’t you think that this Gorgeous Girl parasitical type is a result of the Victorian revolt? The Gorgeous Girl The third parasitical disease common in some parts of the United States has received much attention during this last year and is known as the hookworm disease. Rural Hygiene Conviction came upon me that it was instinctive for the booby to kill the parasitical rabihorcado; and likewise instinctive for the rabihorcado to preserve the life of the booby. Tales of Fishes The topography of this planet is similar to our own, save that there are no mountains, and the flora is highly colored almost without exception, and apparently quite largely parasitical in nature. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 Why are these parasitical birds found the world over? Ways of Nature In reality a parasitical little snob, hopelessly self-indulged, though originally kind-hearted and rather clever; and utterly useless but unconscious of the fact. The Gorgeous Girl Little goes without saying; the whole story is told; yet it is always easy to put aside the parasitical growth and get at the solid and useful idea. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 Every single epithelial and muscular fibre-cell leads a sort of parasitical existence in relation to the rest of the body.... The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) Unfortunate star, doomed to carry its parasitical burden of hydrogen and helium, like Sindbad in the clasp of the Old Man of the Sea! Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers Only there seems to be a parasitical principle in Nature that runs all through her works, in the vegetable as well as in the animal kingdom. Ways of Nature It was shelved with the months of a romantic, parasitical existence misnaming jealous monopoly as love, an existence which all at once seemed as long ago as another lifetime. The Gorgeous Girl The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical plants, the beauty of the flowers, the glossy green of the foliage, but, above all, the general luxuriance of the vegetation, filled me with admiration. Life of Charles Darwin It was the machine process in production that permitted the rise of a parasitical, or leisure, class. Women As Sex Vendors or, Why Women Are Conservative (Being a View of the Economic Status of Woman) While Willem was engaged reloading his gun, he heard a loud rustling among the parasitical plants that loaded the pandanus-tree under which he and Congo were standing. The Giraffe Hunters Before this time we had fallen into incredible extravagance in our attitude toward all the parasitical occupations, and paid absurd tributes of respect to many of those who waxed fat upon pandering to our weaknesses. The Message One is that the pearl is produced as a consequence of the presence of dead bodies of a diminutive parasitical tapeworm which commonly affects the Ceylon bivalve. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan It has given way to the triangular theory, by which a new element, in the shape of a parasitical adorer, has been introduced into the holy state. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) If I were to marry you now I should feel a dependent being all my life—a sort of parasitical creature without blood or muscle. Anna the Adventuress Industrial education makes an intelligent producer of the Negro, who becomes of immediate value to the community rather than one who yields to the temptation to live merely by politics or other parasitical employments. The Future of the American Negro However, this parasitical habit breaks out, quite unexpectedly, it must be conceded, in another American family of birds entirely distinct from the cuckoo group. Our Bird Comrades His mind is parasitical, his discourse full of precedents, quotations, classic scenes, and historic allusions, sometimes savoring of schoolboy recitations, sophomoric and declamatory, stilted and grotesque. Senatorial Character A Sermon in West Church, Boston, Sunday, 15th of March, After the Decease of Charles Sumner. Don Pablo at once recognised in this parasitical plant one of the many species of lianas that produce the delicious and perfumed vanilla. Popular Adventure Tales Don Pablo at once recognised in this parasitical plant one of the many species of llianas that produce the delicious and perfumed vanilla. The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon This was no easy matter without stumbling, for the ground was strewed with decayed timber, while creepers and parasitical plants of numerous species formed traps to catch his feet. The Three Midshipmen Another bunting having almost the same range, although a little more southerly, is the red-eyed cowbird, which is larger and darker than our common cowbird and has the same parasitical habits. Our Bird Comrades Now stately trees of various kinds appear, with smooth and highly-coloured bark, loaded with parasitical plants; while large and elegant ferns, and numerous and arborescent grasses, entwine the trees into one entangled mass. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Indeed, the first stirrings of Egyptian nationalism took the form of a protest against the noxious, parasitical "Europeanism" of Khedive Ismail and his courtiers. The New World of Islam Given, thus, free access to the soil and sunshine, with needful nourishment supplied and their fungous or parasitical enemies destroyed, the domesticated plants yield trustful obedience to the protecting hand of the husbandman. The Stewardship of the Soil Baccalaureate Address You may sometimes ride under the living tree where this parasitical foliage is mixed with the real covering of the boughs, forming the most anomalous, and yet the most picturesque of contrasts. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 The solar rays, however bright above, could not penetrate its close canopy of cypress tops, loaded with that strangest of parasitical plants—the tillandsia usneoides. The Death Shot A Story Retold The saloons and the parasitical classes, male and female, seemed to flourish and to play their usual prominent part in the life of such places. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska That is intensely curious about the parasitical plant of Borneo. Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston You often see the porpoises, and smaller fish of this class, throw themselves into the air, and fall flat on the water, to detach the barnacles and other parasitical insects, which distress them. The King's Own Groves of cocoa-nut trees, and beyond them the dense green of the jungle, with, as they progressed, piled-up rocks, black, dark-brown, and glorious with parasitical and creeping growths. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle They use it in combination with the bina, another deadly poison, extracted from the juice of a parasitical plant found everywhere through the forests of Borneo. The Castaways Monotropa hypopithys, yellow monotropa, or birds’ nest—in Selborne Hanger under the shady beeches, to whose roots it seems to be parasitical, at the north-west end of the Hanger. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 They are parasitic only in the sense that their work is done either for parasites or for the parasitical consumption of active capitalists. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement Thousands and tens of thousands of parasitical worms were found in the stomach, but none in the intestine. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Pope, it must be remembered, is essentially a parasitical writer. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The huge forest-trees were loaded with parasitical creepers, which, stretching from trunk to trunk in all directions, formed here and there an impenetrable net or trellis-work. The Castaways Is it at times a parasitical bird, dropping its eggs into other birds' nests? The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers The Mississippi—river of majestic beauties—with the green, delightful shores, elegant plantations, and dense forests of tall cotton-wood and dark, funereal cypress, overhung with the parasitical moss, gliding panorama-like before the enraptured vision! Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Dodder is a parasitical plant introduced, probably, in seed from Europe, which feeds upon alfalfa plants, to their destruction. Clovers and How to Grow Them This parasitical plant was regarded as a charm of no ordinary virtue. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales They were endeavouring to avoid it by keeping on the other side of the tree, and screening themselves among the parasitical plants. The Castaways There is a great variety of species, but they all belong to the same parasitical family, and wage a non-discriminating warfare upon the soldiery on both sides of No-man's-Land. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army Tobacco is death to all kinds of parasitical vermin; it will kill the most venomous reptiles very quick. Vanity, All Is Vanity A Lecture on Tobacco and its effects The Fourth Power is parasitical to the three others; and lives upon their life, without any separate existence. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists The dodder is what is called a parasitical plant; that is, a plant that lives entirely on another. Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. Here vegetation is in its richest profusion; the parasitical plants are surpassingly graceful, wreathing themselves over rocks and trees. Round About the Carpathians In the crevices of walls, where this soil is washed down, even the seeds of trees grow, and, gradually as a building becomes more ruined, ivy and other parasitical plants cover it. Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher The grave courtesy of his speech to Colombe, his somewhat condescending but not unfriendly tone with Valence, his rough home-truths with the parasitical courtiers, and his frank confidence with Melchior, are admirably discriminated. An Introduction to the Study of Browning He was one of those rare eastern potentates who wasn't hampered by parasitical relatives. The Adventures of Kathlyn The huge tholukhs were covered with a multitude of parasitical plants, that hung in festoons or trailed down towards the earth. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government You are a creature of the French police, one of those parasitical creatures who live by sucking the honesty out of simpler persons. The Betrayal There they stretched—the same blackened wilderness of roofs sheltering the same horde of drinking, filthy, cursing, parasitical creatures; there flared the gin-palaces, more of them, more brilliantly lit, more gorgeously decorated. A Prince of Sinners The species or varieties of this remarkable tribe of parasitical plants are very numerous, and may be said to exhibit a variety of loveliness. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants One is as profitless and parasitical as the other. The Business of Being a Woman And though, being a parasitical growth, it could not originate works of genius, like its ancient prototypes, it could appropriate those which Heliopolis and Thebes had created. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical plants, the beauty of the flowers, the glossy green of the foliage ... the general luxuriance of the vegetation, filled me with admiration. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 They are widely diffused in the natural world, existing independently and also in a parasitical way, in connection with larger forms of organic life. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World From the outset, however, it became manifest that the principle is applicable to cases where heat plays only a parasitical part. The New Physics and Its Evolution A small percentage of these are self-supporting, but the majority are purely parasitical. The Business of Being a Woman The root of some parasitical plant, under the name of kritz, is used in Cashmere to wash the celebrated shawls, soap is used only for white shawls. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Here and there are patches of tropical blossoms, towering ferns, fungoid growths, or some rare and beautiful orchid whose parasitical roots have attached themselves to a tree trunk. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians The dense and nearly impenetrable forest itself occupied our chief attention; magnificent trees, altogether new to us, were anchored to the ground by bush-rope, convolvuli, and parasitical plants of every variety. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 578, December 1, 1832 Their existence, stripped of the parasitical and somewhat singular properties sought to be attributed to them, would thus appear natural enough. The New Physics and Its Evolution The really serious side to the existence of this parasitical group is that great numbers of other women, not free, forced to produce, accept their standards of life. The Business of Being a Woman And, further, there is the allaying of parasitical irritation which is afforded by the rubbing and hence results in pleasure. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man From its habit of growing on trees, and the character of its stems and fruit, this plant has been called parasitical. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation The exhibit of agronomical maps by the Mexican Commission was of much scientific value, and the collection of insects and injurious parasitical plants was also worthy of attention. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission The terrace is covered by a lattice-work, formed into arched windows at the side next the court: over the sides and roof there are trailing parasitical plants. The Idler in France That compound parasitical stone has been also again cemented by heat and fusion; I have a specimen in which there is a clear demonstration of that fact. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) The trees were covered with luxuriant and bright green foliage, and their trunks were hidden by a crowd of parasitical plants, whose aromatic blossoms perfumed the air. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa Take what precautions you may, it is impossible to avoid having your person and garments infested by certain very disgusting parasitical creatures. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy Gigantic climbers hung down in long festoons passing from branch to branch, and the more aged trunks supported clumps of ferns and parasitical plants. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 Of all the parasitical plants I ever saw, I do think it is the most exquisite in form and colour, and its perfume is like the most delicate heliotrope. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 MISSELTO.—A parasitical plant well known, and formerly of much repute in medicine, but wholly disregarded in the present practice. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II It isn't so—if one collapses, it only means that one has been living an artificial and parasitical life. Father Payne Many industries and branches of industry in America are thus parasitical A condition essentially pathological has come to be looked upon as normal. Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II From the varieties of birds, insects, butterflies, and parasitical plants, etc. that we saw, these islands promise a rich field to the naturalist and botanist. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea It is parasitical, the parasite being a fungus, the Peronospora infestans, which grows at the expense of the leaves, stems, and tubers of the plant until it destroys their vitality. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 In the southern provinces of France, magnificent forests, intwined by arborescent grasses and with the trees loaded with parasitical plants, would hide the face of the land. The Voyage of the Beagle It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section D and E Their natural simple common sense enables them to clear away all parasitical and traditional rubbish from their minds, and to stand before us as men of the highest excellence. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography Adj. servile, obsequious; supple,supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching &c. v. Roget's Thesaurus On this being broken, probably by birds, the bird-lime is apt to attach the seed to trees or branches, and so the parasitical growth commences. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia How singular is this relationship between parasitical fungi and the trees on which they grow, in distant parts of the world! The Voyage of the Beagle Yet I found small relish in looking forward to life as a member of that futile clan of parasitical Royalty. City of Endless Night The great question is whether he is revealed or not; and a strong truth can carry many parasitical errors. Wilfrid Cumbermede Within it, was a rude seat; and some parasitical plant with a deep red flower, had twined round the withered boughs, and mingled fantastically with the dead leaves. A Love Story His mind is a wilderness, in which the cedar and the oak, which might aspire to the skies, are stunted in their growth by underwood, thorns, briars, and parasitical plants. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey The few stunted trees were loaded with parasitical plants, among which the beauty and delicious fragrance of some of the orchideae were most to be admired. The Voyage of the Beagle The valleys were clothed with bright and luxuriant verdure, and flowering parasitical plants wound along the trunks of spreading trees. Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa Clearly, the stomach of the peccari, and perhaps that of the pig, present a favorable medium for the parasitical microbe peculiar to the rinderpest. Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 To him, horses were the final peak of creation—or if not the horses, the coachman, whose they are—masters and mistresses the merest parasitical adjuncts. Mary Marston So take care of self-will and self-regard, and human passions, and all the other parasitical insects that creep round philanthropic religious work, lest they spoil your service. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII The elegance of the grasses, the novelty of the parasitical plants, the beauty of the flowers, the glossy green of the foliage, but above all the general luxuriance of the vegetation, filled me with admiration. The Voyage of the Beagle Beautiful clumps of birch-trees and tall thin poplars, rose on each side among the rocks covered with bright mosses, and parasitical plants of gay and various colours. The Rise of Iskander Few old vizcacheras are seen without some of these little parasitical burrows in them. The Naturalist in La Plata Charity and prudence are not parasitical plants which require boles of falsehood to climb up upon. Friends in Council — First Series Club-root:—This is a parasitical disease attacking the cabbage group, especially in ground where these crops succeed each other. Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use All the rivers overflow their banks; forests, trees, shrubs, and parasitical plants seem to float on the water, and the sea tinged with yellow clay, adds its billows to the fresh-water streams. The World of Waters A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea Adj. servile, obsequious; supple, supple as a glove; soapy, oily, pliant, cringing, abased, dough-faced, fawning, slavish, groveling, sniveling, mealy-mouthed; beggarly, sycophantic, parasitical; abject, prostrate, down on ones marrowbones; base, mean, sneaking; crouching &c. v.. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases FUNGI.—These are common parasitical plants, originating in the production of copious filamentous threads, called the mycelium, or spawn. The Book of Household Management One reason which no doubt has obtained for it a marked degree of honour is its parasitical manner of growth, which was in primitive times ascribed to the intervention of the gods. The Folk-lore of Plants God shows us by the insects that little things are allowed to be parasitical; but on this subject I must return to a point in the history of animals which I touched upon before. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals There was no parasitical homage in the act, for De Launay loved his sovereign with a love little known at courts; loyally, faithfully, and without a particle of self-seeking. Temporal Power There can be no reform or refinement of faith except God be its exclusive subject; and so certainly it leads to lopping off all parasitical worships such as are given to Christ and Mahomet…. The Prince of India — Volume 01 But these considerations were not of a nature to affect his parasitical attendants very nearly or keenly. The Caesars In the huts of savages dogs are greatly exposed to the attacks of parasitical insects, for vermin generally abound in such localities. The Naturalist in Nicaragua The sort of thing is not always very amusing, I admit, but you must look upon it as the ladder by which you will be enabled to rise from the degradation of a parasitical life. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Every single epithelial and muscular fibre-cell leads a sort of parasitical existence in relation to the rest of the body. Life and Habit These parasitical worms are about an inch and a half long and taper to a point at each end. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 The common sparrow is parasitical on man, consequently but rarely found at any distance from human habitations, and it seemed a little strange to find them at home at Stonehenge on the open plain. Afoot in England No one who has not lived and moved about amongst the bush of the tropics can appreciate what a torment the different parasitical species of acarus or ticks are. The Naturalist in Nicaragua I speak of it now, because ever since war broke out your class and the parasitical bourgeoisie have done your best to reduce me to starvation. The Red Planet One was corrupt and powerful; the other was weak and parasitical. The Mirrors of Washington He discovered parasitical mites all over them on the outside, and the flesh contained many worms. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Their parasitical habits expose them to harsh vicissitudes. More Hunting Wasps It affords cover for parasitical insects, which, if the skin were naked, might more easily be got rid of. The Naturalist in Nicaragua And yet the cow-bird finds this nest and drops her parasitical egg in it. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers Here its worst enemy is mildew, a parasitical fungus which attacks the leaves, revealing itself in yellowish-brown patches on the upper side, and thin, frosty patches underneath. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors But the inventor has made night work, except by the parasitical leeches, unnecessary to the masses, a few hours of daylight being more than sufficient to supply all the needs of the country. Confiscation; an outline Monotropa hypopithys, yellow monotropa, or bird's nest, — in Selborne Hanger under the shady beeches, to whose roots it seems to be parasitical — at the north-west end of the Hanger. The Natural History of Selborne Densely interwoven trees, shrubs, and parasitical climbers fought everywhere for possession of it. A Voyage to Arcturus Occasionally the marks were hidden under tufts of myrtle, which spread into large bushes laden with blossoms, or beneath parasitical lichen. The Count of Monte Cristo Real novelty of vocabulary is impossible; in the matter of language we lead a parasitical existence, and are always quoting. Style |
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