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Parʹasite

(Greek, para sītos, eating at another’s cost). A plant or animal that lives on another; hence a hanger-on, who fawns and flatters for the sake of his food.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Paradise
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained (in four books)
Paradise Shoots
Paradise of Fools
Paradise and the Peri
Parallel
Paramatta
Parapet
Paraphernalia
Parasite
Parc aux Cerfs [deer parks]
Parcæ
Parchment
Pardon Bell
Pardouneres Tale
Pari Passu
Parian Chronicle
Parian Verse
Parias or Pariahs
Paridel