Semiparasitic

Adjective

Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

1.AdjectiveDescribing a plant that, although it uses photosynthesis, obtains some nutrition from other plants.

2.AdjectiveHaving moderate infectiousness for living tissue.

"The typhoid bacillus and cholera bacterium are semiparasitic."

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