parasitical
adj1
Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of a parasite; parasitic.
- The parasitical plants render the forests impassable in many places1826, Conrad Malte-Brun, Universal Geography:
- Unconventional, circulating, parasitical, the rogue state that is the essence of American empire enters the political bloodstream of world terrorism . . .2005, Stephen J. Pfohl, Culture, Power, and History:
- Derived terms
- antiparasitical, hyperparasitical, mycoparasitical, parasiticalness, unparasitical