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semiparasitic

semiparasitic adjective: describing a plant that, although it uses photosynthesis, obtains some nutrition from other plants.

Adjective

semiparasitic (not comparable)

  1. Describing a plant that, although it uses photosynthesis, obtains some nutrition from other plants.
  2. Having moderate infectiousness for living tissue.
    • The typhoid bacillus and cholera bacterium are semiparasitic.

Origin of semiparasitic

From semi- + parasitic.

Words formed from semiparasitic

Questions about semiparasitic

What does semiparasitic mean?
Semiparasitic means describing a plant that, although it uses photosynthesis, obtains some nutrition from other plants.
What part of speech is semiparasitic?
Semiparasitic is an adjective.

Words near semiparasitic in the dictionary

  1. semiparalysis
  2. semiparalyzed
  3. semiparametric
  4. semiparasite
  5. semiparasites
  6. semiparasitic
  7. semiparasitically
  8. semiparasitism
  9. semiparliamentary
  10. semipartial
  11. semipartitioned

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