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Definition of Semiparasitic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to plants that are semiparasites.
Definition of Semiparasitic
1. Adjective. (botany) Describing a plant that, although it uses photosynthesis, obtains some nutrition from other plants ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Semiparasitic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semiparasitic
Literary usage of Semiparasitic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1897)
"semiparasitic ; SARS, Bull. Ac. St. Petersb. iv, p. 480. ... Costa, semiparasitic
in Cardium, Sea of Azof ; of Gascony ; BONNIER, Ann. Univ. ..."
2. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"In some that are semiparasitic, the appendages from the opposite sides are joined
together in a sucker. Sometimes the segmentation of the body disappears ..."
3. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting, William Henry Lang (1921)
"... are semiparasitic. Although they possess green leaves they attach themselves
by means of haustoria to the roots of other plants, from which they obtain ..."
4. Applied Entomology; an Introductory Text-book of Insects in Their Relations by Henry Torsey Fernald (1921)
"A few species of crickets live a semiparasitic" life in ants' nests and in
consequence are so much modified as to show little resemblance to the common ..."
5. The Microtomist's Vade-mecum: A Handbook of the Methods of Microscopic Anatomy by Arthur Bolles Lee (1885)
"3 " Monograph of the Free and semiparasitic Copepoda of the British Islands," '
Journ. Roy. Mic. Soc.' i (1878), p. 369. * ' Amer. Journ. ..."
6. Guide to the Materials for American History in Roman and Other Italian Archives by Carl Russell Fish (1911)
"Three genera, comprising half a dozen species, of semiparasitic seed- plants are
to be- found on the domain of the Desert Laboratory. ..."
7. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1881)
"... forms not provided with jaws. semiparasitic habits; much in the same way as
many of the Insectivora have been preserved owing to their subterranean ..."
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