Gigantic climbers hung down in long festoons passing from branch to branch, and the more aged trunks supported clumps of ferns and parasitical plants.
There were two daughters of a parasitical Italian nobleman, of whom one had married the patriot Giacomo Piaveni, and one an Austrian diplomatist, the Commendatore Graf von Lenkenstein.
By breaking through brambles and parasitical growths, he made his way to a sort of platform on which the moonlight dazzled.
Has she advanced in process of evolution from a parasitical progenitor building no nest, or is the bird gradually retrograding to the evil ways of her notorious namesake?
Many other species are occasionally addicted to the same practice, though such acts are apparently accidental rather than deliberate, so far as parasitical intent is concerned.
The trunks of the trees, too, exhibit a similar parasitical vegetation.
The mistletoe has white, wax-looking berries, and dull green leaves, with a parasitical stem.
Parasitical plants of the genus Loranthus are very apt to attach themselves to the branches, and if not removed do great injury.
The root of some parasitical plant, under the name of kritz, is used in Cashmere to wash the celebrated shawls, soap is used only for white shawls.
Rank coarse weeds and parasiticalplants should be uprooted.
The most frequent parasitical plant, which is found upon nearly all the tholukhs, is called koushi in Haussa, and barango in Bornou.
I observed two species of parasitical plants, one of which has a slender trunk, and has its root in the earth; and the other, which is entirely dependent on the tree over which it spreads for all its support and nourishment.
Parasitical plants would be a complete study for the botanist here.
Yellow and purple blossoms, in a riot of ineffable splendor, bedecked the lofty trees and tangled parasitical creepers that wrapped around them, constituting veritable hanging gardens.
A word in passing regarding these sons, for they typify a form of parasitical growth, of the fungus variety, which in these days has battened and waxed noxious on the great stalk of legitimate commercial enterprise.
Their existence, stripped of the parasitical and somewhat singular properties sought to be attributed to them, would thus appear natural enough.
From the outset, however, it became manifest that the principle is applicable to cases where heat plays only a parasitical part.
The birds of prey, however, often succumb to the attack of a small parasitical mite, which develops itself in millions in their feathers.
Animals which originally have lived freely and independently, but afterwards adopt a parasitical mode of life on other animals or plants, in the first place cease to use their organs of motion and their organs of sense.
There the differentiation viewed by itself is a degeneration, although it is advantageous to the parasitical organism.
No other change in the mode of life so much affects the shapes of organisms as the adoption of a parasitical life.
This small, dangerous parasite, again, may be killed by parasitical moulds.
If, for instance, organisms which have hitherto lived independently accustom themselves to a parasitical life, they thereby degenerate or retrograde.
These are common parasitical plants, originating in the production of copious filamentous threads, called the mycelium, or spawn.
Why are these parasitical birds found the world over?
Only there seems to be a parasitical principle in Nature that runs all through her works, in the vegetable as well as in the animal kingdom.
So far as I know, no bird does eject thisparasitical egg, and no other bird besides the yellow warbler gets rid of it in the way I have described.
An ambitious, but not a novel question, which has often been propounded in reference to our parasitical insects.
Others, who regard the wheat worm as an insect, rank it among the parasitical Apteræ.
They were endeavouring to avoid it by keeping on the other side of the tree, and screening themselves among the parasitical plants.
The huge forest-trees were loaded with parasitical creepers, which, stretching from trunk to trunk in all directions, formed here and there an impenetrable net or trellis-work.
They use it in combination with the bina, another deadly poison, extracted from the juice of a parasitical plant found everywhere through the forests of Borneo.
Below the junction of the Parana it is thickly studded with islands covered with wild orange-trees, and a variety of beautiful shrubs and parasitical plants, new to European eyes.
Some also live as messmates with each other; some of the Sabelliphili have one of the sexes parasitical on the other sex.
They may be ranked among the most beautiful and the largest of parasitical worms; and as they are hermaphrodites, we find no greater diversity in the several forms than in their differences of age.
Do we not find medical men prescribing the employment of leeches, and consequently calling in the assistance of certain parasitical animals?
All the parasitical crustaceans are placed in this first category.
On the contrary, all wild animals harbour their parasitical worms, and the greater part of them have not lived long in captivity, before nematode and cestode worms completely disappear.
Their action is like that of the parts of the mouth in certain parasitical crustaceans, the Arguli, when they endeavour to pierce through the tissues.
Another acarus parasitical on man, the Persian Argas, is fortunately unknown in Europe.
It is not a parasitical worm, at least under this form, because each female contains only one or two eggs.
Buetschli, has lately made a good resume 238 of the state of our present knowledge of parasitical and wandering nematodes.
In the autumn of 1871, nearly all the mesostomes perished through the presence of these parasitical organisms: in the following year they were rare.
There can be no reform or refinement of faith except God be its exclusive subject; and so certainly it leads to lopping off all parasiticalworships such as are given to Christ and Mahomet.
We have one parasitical bird, the cow-bird, so-called because it walks about amid the grazing cattle and seizes the insects which their heavy tread sets going, which is an enemy of most of the smaller birds.
And yet the cow-bird finds this nest and drops her parasitical egg in it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parasitical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
