Parasite vs Cadger - What's the difference?
parasite | cadger | Related terms |
(pejorative) A person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back.
(biology) an organism that lives on or in another organism, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism.
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(literary, poetic) A climbing plant which is supported by a wall, trellis etc.
* 1813 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), Queen Mab , I:
(archaic) A hawker or peddler.
* 1928 , D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
(sometimes, Geordie) A beggar.
* Charles Dickens
Parasite is a related term of cadger.
As nouns the difference between parasite and cadger
is that parasite is (pejorative) a person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back while cadger is (archaic) a hawker or peddler.parasite
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(wikipedia parasite)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite . This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.}}
- ''Lice, fleas, ticks and mites are widely spread parasites .
- Her golden tresses shade / The bosom’s stainless pride, / Curling like tendrils of the parasite / Around a marble column.
Antonyms
* commensal (doing no noticeable harm) * mutualist or sometimes symbiote (beneficial)See also
* symbiontReferences
*Anagrams
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Noun
(en noun)- He was not a regular gondolier, so he had none of the cadger and prostitute about him.
- The gentleman cadger .