💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Parasitic plant"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| heterophytenoun | (biology) Any plant that obtains its nourishment from other (living or dead) plants; includes parasites and saprophytes |
| hemiparasitenoun | (botany) Any parasitic plant that obtains energy by photosynthesis as well as from its host |
| myco-heterotrophnoun | A plant that gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis. |
| entophytenoun | (ecology) Any plant or fungus growing as a parasite within another organism. |
| mycoheterotrophynoun | Alternative form of myco-heterotrophy. [A symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis.] |
| ectophytenoun | (biology) Any plant that lives as a parasite on the surface of another organism |
| host plantnoun | (biology) A plant that supplies food resources and substrate for certain insects or other fauna. |
| phytoparasitenoun | (ecology) A parasitic plant. |
| myco-heterotrophynoun | A symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis. |
| insectivorous plant | — |
| semiepiphytenoun | (botany) A plant that can be an epiphyte (live on the surface of the other plant), or live independently. |
| biophytenoun | (biology) Any plant that obtains nourishment from the bodies of insects (or other once-living organisms) |
| food plantnoun | (chiefly entomology) A plant which is a source of food for a given species. |
| epiphytenoun | (botany) A plant that grows on another, using it for physical support but obtaining no nutrients from it and neither causing damage nor offering benefit; an air plant. |
| endophytenoun | Any organism (generally a bacterium, fungus or alga) that lives inside a plant. |
| rhizoidnoun | (botany) A rootlike structure in fungi and some plants that acts as support and/or aids the absorption of nutrients. |
| plasmodiophoridnoun | Any member of the Phytomyxea (but sometimes excluding Phagomyxa), a group of protists that are parasites of plants. |
| mycorrhizanoun | (ecology, botany, mycology) A plant root formed in symbiosis with a fungus; the symbiosis between the mycelium of a fungus and the roots of a plant. |
| tristerix aphyllus | a holoparasitic plant species of the genus Tristerix in the family Loranthaceae. |
| rhizogennoun | (obsolete, botany) One of a former proposed class of flowering plants growing on the roots of other plants and lacking green foliage. |
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