Even if brain leeches were real, which she didn't believe for a minute, at least she could understand them: their genetic imperative to conquer other species, their parasitic nature.

"Popular lecturers are in their nature parasitic."

The udumbara tree's unseen flowers, parasitic nature and Vedic magical ascriptions have informed the tree's inclusion in a number of Buddhist texts.

I begin to understand the strangely parasitic nature of my host.

Buildings, spaces, attachments and interventions are often characterised by their parasitic or alien nature.

It is responsible for the "white rot" root disease (see below) of forests and is distinguished from Tricholoma (mycorrhizal) by this parasitic nature.

He could only try to moderate his parasitic nature.

Though he found the parasitic nature of mammalian pregnancy to be unnerving, he understood the profound sense of connection that it created between female mammals and their young.

When the average person wakes up to the con that are elections and the parasitic nature of capitalism - the struggle can begin in earnest.

It was the parasitic nature of the bureaucracy, rather than its class position, that originally impressed Trotsky.