adjective
- not living on or in another organism and deriving nutrients from it
Usage: biology
Examples
- The nonparasitic bacteria can survive independently in soil.
- Most plants are nonparasitic organisms that produce their own food.
- Scientists studied the difference between parasitic and nonparasitic worms.
- The nonparasitic lifestyle allows these organisms greater freedom of movement.
- Nonparasitic species don’t depend on host organisms for survival.
- The research focused on nonparasitic fungi found in forest ecosystems.