parasitic plant

NOUN
  1. plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it
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How To Use parasitic plant In A Sentence

  • Parasitic plants may affect host fitness by absorbing resources that are essential for host growth and reproduction.
  • And for further simplification, the system in this study also does not include carnivorous and parasitic plants.
  • Nevertheless, growing these parasitic plants in vitro is difficult, because of their dependence on a connection to hosts for normal development, and because of their specific germination requirements.
  • A sure sign that water is contaminated is "the parasitic plant known as the lemna gibba or green water lentil" -- it's a kind of duckweed -- "which grows in aquatic environments into which urban runoff is continually discharged. Anneli Rufus: Lake Titicaca Is Full of Sh*t
  • TORONTO, ON - Each year, thousands of acres of crops are planted throughout Africa, Asia and Australia only to be laid to waste by a parasitic plant called Striga, also known as witchweed. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • Noted plant geek and recently appointed Director of Horticulture, Scott Vergara will lead you through slides and a garden tour into their world, and you'll discover great garden-hardy ‘scroph’ specimens: weird snapdragons, beautiful beardtongues, parasitic plants, the rare, the fleeting, and the much-to-be-desired.
  • In vitro infection of host roots by differentiated calli of the parasitic plant Orobanche was also achieved in O. ramosa.
  • This observer claimed to have discovered in the cankerous secretions the existence of a vegetable parasite (namely, a cryptogam, as in favus), which he termed the keraphyton, or parasitic plant of the horn. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
  • Some facultative parasitic plants such as Rhinanthus minor appear to have functional photosynthetic apparatus and can grow without a host providing reduced carbon.
  • They say that the parasitic plant which grows on nettles is nationally scarce and grows on only 100 sites across the country.
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