semiparasitic
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semiparasitic (not comparable)
- (botany) Describing a plant that, although it uses photosynthesis, obtains some nutrition from other plants.
- (biology) Having moderate infectiousness for living tissue.
- The typhoid bacillus and cholera bacterium are semiparasitic.