Brewer's: Parasite

(Greek, para sitos, eating at another's cost). A plant or animal that lives on another; hence a hanger-on, who fawns and flatters for the sake of his food.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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