invasive
侵入性,入侵性,入侵,侵入性的
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Definitions
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- : characterized by or involving invasion; offensive: invasive war.
- : invading, or tending to invade; intrusive: Every party we have is crashed by those invasive neighbors.
- : Medicine/Medical. requiring the entry of a needle, catheter, or other instrument into a part of the body, especially in a diagnostic procedure, as a biopsy: An x-ray is not invasive, but it may not tell us everything we need to know.
- : posing a threat to a plant community by growing vigorously and spreading prolifically among the previously established vegetation: One of these invasive Asian grasses is making its way to the forest floors of southern Indiana.
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Examples
An electro-acupuncture needle is in one view a minimally-invasive neural interface that only pierces the top of the skin.
In Canada, just last year, entomologists identified two different invasive hornet species.
Those eggs may transport fish, including invasive species, to new places.
In the lab, Vincze and her colleagues fed thousands of eggs from two invasive carp species to eight mallard ducks.
That knowledge could reveal new ways to control the invasive species.
The procedure they undergo to extract eggs is intense and invasive and there are no sexual kicks involved.
But what if vasectomies were cheap, non-invasive, fully reversible, and as widespread as the female birth control pill?
Only in the high seas are there still some habitats free of invasive species.
A day running errands in public can involve multiple strangers asking invasive questions about her body and her abilities.
Besides the danger to animals, these exotic animals may cause havoc as an invasive species.
She studied it till the conventional phrases took a fiery hue, and came at her with an invasive rush.
This is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.
Two obstacles, the one external, the other internal, checked its invasive progress.
Afterwards Lowell wrote again, owning himself wrong in his appeal, which he had come to recognize as invasive.
It is enough to say that Sepia found her companion distrait, and he felt her a little invasive.