sitio-, siti-, sito-, sit-, -sitia +

1. Symbiosis in which one population (or individual) adversely affects the other, but cannot live without it.
2. Infection or infestation with parasites.
3. Etymology: "a hanger-on, a toady, a person who lives on others", from Middle French (about 1400 to 1600) parasite; from Latin parasitus, from Greek parasitos, "person who eats at the table of another"; from para-, "beside" + sitos, "food".

The scientific meaning of "animal" or "plant that lives on others" is first recorded in 1646.

Infection or infestation with a parasite or parasites.

1. To live on or in a host; such as, a parasite.
2. To infest or live on an animal or plant, as a parasite

Caused by parasites.

Resembling or similar to a parasite.

An expert in parasitology.

The science or study of parasites and parasitism.

An irrational dread of parasites.

A parasite city; a city that is over-developed and economically non-productive.

Infection or infestation with parasites.

Having a special affinity for parasites.

The affinity of a drug for infective parasites.

1. A parasitic plant.
2. Any parasitic vegetable organism or species.

1. An object or organism that resembles or is mistaken for a parasite.
2. A false parasite; which may be either a commensal or a temporary parasite (the latter being an organism accidentally ingested and surviving briefly in the intestine).

In botany, a plant that gets food from a host but also contains chlorophyll and is capable of photosynthesis.