semiparasitic

English

Etymology

semi- +‎ parasitic

Adjective

semiparasitic (not comparable)

1. (botany) Describing a plant that, although it uses photosynthesis, obtains some nutrition from other plants.
2. (biology) Having moderate infectiousness for living tissue.

   The typhoid bacillus and cholera bacterium are semiparasitic.

Related terms

• holoparasitic