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Parasite vs Nutgall - What's the difference?

parasite | nutgall |

As nouns the difference between parasite and nutgall

is that parasite is (pejorative) a person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back while nutgall is an enlarged growth on a tree formed in response to damage or parasite sometimes called just a gall.

parasite

English

(wikipedia parasite)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author= , title=The Smallest Cell , volume=101, issue=2, page=83 , magazine= 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 .
  • (literary, poetic) A climbing plant which is supported by a wall, trellis etc.
  • * 1813 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), Queen Mab , I:
    • 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)

    Related terms

    * parasitise, parasitize * parasitic, parasitical * parasiticide * parasitism * parasitology * parasite drag

    See also

    * symbiont

    References

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    nutgall

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia nutgall)
  • An enlarged growth on a tree formed in response to damage or parasite. Sometimes called just a gall.
  • * 1848 , John Hannett, Bibliopegia, or, The Art of Bookbinding in all its branches , page 65:
    • In two pints of water boil one ounce of tan, and a like portion of nutgall till reduced to a pint.

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