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Definition of Nonparasitic
1. Adjective. Not parasitic on another organism.
Category relationships: Biological Science, Biology
Similar to: Independent
Definition of Nonparasitic
1. Adjective. Not parasitic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nonparasitic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonparasitic
Literary usage of Nonparasitic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Bureau of Animal Industry, United States, United States Bureau of Animal Industry, New Hampshire Forestry and Recreation Commission (1909)
"PERIODS OF THE nonparasitic PORTION OF DEVELOPMENT. The various periods in the
nonparasitic portion of the development of the tick which will receive ..."
2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1922)
"Chlorosis of red cedar, nonparasitic. Hays. ... Raspberry curl, nonparasitic
disease. Troy. Wathena. ..."
3. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"These latter may indeed be able to go through life as free-living, nonparasitic
animals, although, with opportunity, they live parasitically. ..."
4. The Principles and Practice of Dermatology: Designed for Students and by William Allen Pusey (1911)
"Common sycosis was formerly described, in contradistinction to tinea sycosis, as
nonparasitic sycosis, a title which is, of course, inappropriate. ..."
5. The Freshwater Aquarium and Its Inhabitants: Guide for the Amateur Aquarist by Otto Eggeling, Frederick Ehrenberg (1912)
"If parasitic, they have been caused by the introduction of fishes and plants from
infected waters, if nonparasitic, mistakes in feeding, sudden changes in ..."
6. Manual of the Diseases of Children by John Madison Taylor, William Hughes Wells (1901)
"Not contagious. 5. Irregular character of eruption. 6. Does not heal from center.
7. Usually a chronic affection. 8. nonparasitic disease. ..."
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