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hemibiotrophic

hemibiotrophic adjective: biotrophic in some circumstances, or some of the time.

Adjective

hemibiotrophic (not comparable)

  1. Biotrophic in some circumstances, or some of the time.
    • Hemibiotrophic fungi include those that infect living tissue, similar to biotrophs, but after an extended incubation period of days or weeks the infected tissue dies, within which the fungus now continues to develop as a saprotroph, usually resulting in sporulation.2007, Barbara J.E. Schulz, Microbial Root Endophytes, page 138

Origin of hemibiotrophic

From hemi- + biotrophic or hemibiotroph + -ic.

Questions about hemibiotrophic

What does hemibiotrophic mean?
Hemibiotrophic means biotrophic in some circumstances, or some of the time.
What part of speech is hemibiotrophic?
Hemibiotrophic is an adjective.

Words near hemibiotrophic in the dictionary

  1. hemiatrophy
  2. hemiazygos
  3. hemiballism
  4. hemiballismus
  5. hemibiotroph
  6. hemibiotrophic
  7. hemibiotrophs
  8. hemibiotrophy
  9. hemiblock
  10. hemiblocks
  11. hemibodies

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