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(botany) Describing a plant that, although it uses photosynthesis, obtains some nutrition from other plants..
The typhoid bacillus and cholera bacterium are semiparasitic.
Use semiparasitic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Semiparasitic means (botany) Describing a plant that, although it uses photosynthesis, obtains some nutrition from other plants..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The typhoid bacillus and cholera bacterium are semiparasitic.
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