parasite
/ˈpær·əˌsɑɪt/ n [C]Definition
› biology an animal or plant that lives on or in another animal or plant of a different type and feeds from it › A parasite is also a person who uses others to obtain an advantage without doing anything in exchange.
(Definition of parasite n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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