Definition of Semiparasites

1. semiparasite [n] - See also: semiparasite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Semiparasites

semiotics
semious
semioval
semioval centre
semiovate
semioxamazide
semioxamazone
semioxamazones
semioxygenated
semipagan
semipalmated
semiparabola
semiparabolae
semiparabolas
semiparasite
semiparasites (current term)
semiparasitic
semipartitioned
semiped
semipeds
semipellucid
semipendent
semipenniform
semiperimeter
semiperimeters
semiperipheral
semipermanent
semipermeable
semipermeable membrane
semiperpetual

Literary usage of Semiparasites

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Study of Infection and Immunity: Including Chapters by Charles Edmund Simon (1912)
"Offensive-defensive Mechanism in Infections witk semiparasites.— If now we turn our attention to the offensive-defensive mechanism which is thrown into ..."

2. Infection and Immunity: A Text-book of Immunology and Serology for Students by Charles Edmund Simon (1915)
"... Offensive-defensive Mechanism in Infections with semiparasites. — If now we turn our attention to the offensive-defensive mechanism which is thrown into ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"... destructive to fruit trees, silver fir and poplar. Other species of mistletoe are common in the West and in the South. Most of these are semiparasites. ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"... destructive to fruit trees, silver fir and poplar. Other species of mistletoe are common in the West and in the South. Most of these are semiparasites. ..."

5. Natural History of the American Lobster by Francis Hobart Herrick (1911)
"That molting alone is not able to do this and that some additional aid is often needed is amply proved by the great variety of messmates or semiparasites ..."

6. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1907)
"There are certain plants which may be called semiparasites, for while they possess chlorophyll, and can therefore assimilate carbon-dioxide, ..."

7. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"A large number of the smaller ones art- epiphytes, and there are many semiparasites also among the algx, as well as some fungus parasites. ..."

8. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"A large number of the smaller ones are epiphytes, and there are many semiparasites also among the algae, as well as some fungus parasites. ..."

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