parasite

organism adapted to living on or in another organism and causing harm to its host
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parasite

Summary

parasite is a class of living thing[1]. parasite draws 478 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_living_thing category, ranking #4 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • parasite's image is recorded as Live Tetragnatha montana (RMNH.ARA.14127) parasitized by Acrodactyla quadrisculpta larva (RMNH.INS.593867) - BDJ.1.e992.jpg[3].
  • parasite's instance of is recorded as class of living thing[4].
  • parasite is named after parasite[5].
  • parasite's subclass of is recorded as organism[6].
  • parasite's part of is recorded as parasitism[7].
  • parasite's Commons category is recorded as Parasites[8].
  • parasite's opposite of is recorded as host organism[9].
  • parasite's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D010271[10].
  • parasite's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.050.500.714[11].
  • parasite's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph220678[12].
  • parasite's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Parasites[13].
  • parasite's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300258961[14].
  • parasite's PSH ID is recorded as 852[15].
  • parasite's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0129713[16].
  • parasite's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17].
  • parasite's BBC Things ID is recorded as 84905538-a911-4525-8302-b83824a50898[18].
  • parasite's different from is recorded as parasitoid[19].
  • parasite's different from is recorded as hyperparasite[20].
  • parasite's different from is recorded as parasite[21].
  • parasite's YSO ID is recorded as 4493[22].
  • parasite's studied by is recorded as parasitology[23].
  • parasite's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/120mytb8[24].
  • parasite's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1hb_fw13x[25].
  • parasite's union of is recorded as list of values as qualifiers[26].
  • parasite's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrtkn4g4j61x658z31h6pzp[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for parasite include Parasite[28], a film[29], directed by Bong Joon-ho[30] and parasitism[31].

Why It Matters

parasite draws 478 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_living_thing category, ranking #4 of 8).[2] parasite has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] parasite is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for parasite include Parasite[28], a film[29], directed by Bong Joon-ho[30] and parasitism[31].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_parasite-q10253316_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{parasite}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/parasite-q10253316}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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