They're a parasitic growth, and they know it.

The way the parasitic growth drowned its hosts the trees seemed grisly to him.

Then there are wild stories, parasitic growths on the tree of history, trying to bend it their way.

The huge, simplified trees gave way to a hundred different species, and a thousand kinds of flowering shrubs, trailing vines, and parasitic growths.

Agreed that it isn't entirely necessary to post a profile - agreed a hundred times over that London is a parasitic growth on British society.

Tree barks were patterned with sickly parasitic growths.

It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class.

They were a parasitic growth on the body of sport.

Much is now imported, especially from France, for few British gardeners can produce this parasitic growth.

Potassium sulphide was known to be an effective treatment for blights and other parasitic growths, such as American gooseberry mildew.