- A hanger on - Organism living on a host - Peel off covering as it is a leech - Pirate’s a terrible freeloader - One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at
another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a
toady; a sycophant. - A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other
plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; --
sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte. - A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at
its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia.