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Parasitic plant

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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-heterotrophnounA 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.
mycoheterotrophynounAlternative 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-heterotrophynounA 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.
endophytenounAny 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.
plasmodiophoridnounAny 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 aphyllusa 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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