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Article: PARASITES OR, HOW TO FLYPE A METAPHOR.(Critical Essay)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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PARASITE: An organism that for some or all of its life, lives on or in the body or cell of another organism (host), deriving its food from the host. The host does not benefit from the association and is often harmed by it. Human parasites include viruses, bacteria, protozoans and worms.
-- CAMBRIDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EVOLUTION
FLYPE: v.t. Chiefly Scottish. I. Strip off (the skin etc.), peel, flay. 2. Turn up or down, fold back; turn inside out.
-- SHORTER OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
LIFTED OUT of their hiding places, parasites may look strange and monstrous, but only as strange and monstrous as organisms which make it their business to ...