parasitic

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

In contrast, The Strain was returning to the roots of vampires as scary parasitic creatures—and I liked that.

The viral-CSI element; the mythic vampires who were parasitic and brutal; the arrival of the airplane to JFK; the dead passengers.

Definitely a few unpleasant characters, like parasitic worms, which we deliberately and with good reason evicted.

One of the insects Chaz caught - and I promise I am not making this up - was a parasitic wasp.

It appears to be of parasitic origin, but the specific organism that causes it has not been isolated.

She was under the power of a strange will which had entered into her, like another soul, like another parasitic and ruling soul.

(a) Flatworms are sometimes parasitic, examples being the tapeworm and liver fluke.

Sometimes a complicated life history has arisen from their parasitic habits.

Another common tapeworm parasitic on man lives part of its life as an embryo within the muscles of cattle.