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Parasail
- noun - parachute that will lift a person up into the air when it is towed by a motorboat or a car
Parasang
- - A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles.
Parashah
- - A lesson from the Torah, or Law, from which at least one section is read in the Jewish synagogue on every Sabbath and festival.
Parasita
- - An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc. (b) A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata.
Parasite
- noun - a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
- an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host
Parasols
- noun - a handheld collapsible source of shade
Parauque
- - A bird (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.
Paravane
- unknown - paravane (or oropesa), a float for cables to sweep and cut mine cables.
Paraxial
- - On either side of the axis of the skeleton.