facultative parasite

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An organism that may either lead an independent existence or live as a parasite.

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The film reaches its climax when Temple is felled by giardia, a parasite that infects the small intestine.
Claremont McKenna Students Try Life on $1 a Day in ‘Living on One’|Robert Bryce|October 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST
It was Italian doctors who proved that the parasite was carried by mosquitoes.
David's Book Club: The Conquest of Malaria|David Frum|July 31, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Al Qaeda is a parasite that feeds on social instability and turmoil.
Fawaz A. Gerges on How the Arab Spring Beat Al Qaeda|Fawaz A. Gerges|May 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST
All of this feeds a caricature of Washington as a parasite on the real economy.
The New Heat Center|Michael Lind|January 19, 2009|DAILY BEAST

A single platelet lying upon a red corpuscle may easily be mistaken for a malarial parasite (Plate VI).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The spirillum of relapsing fever can be identified by the method for the malarial parasite in fresh blood.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
With the tertian parasite, the segments more frequently form an irregular cluster.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
If a parasite does not make him laugh, he perhaps does not please him, and therefore must be dismissed.
The 'Characters' of Jean de La Bruyre|Jean de La Bruyre
Similarly the saphrophytes are classed as obligatory saphrophytes and facultative parasites.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley