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invasive
[ in-vey-siv ]
adjective
- characterized by or involving invasion; offensive:
invasive war.
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.
- (of a plant, especially a nonnative one) 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.
invasive
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adjective
- of or relating to an invasion, intrusion, etc
- relating to or denoting cancer at the stage at which it has spread from its site of origin to other tissues
- (of surgery) involving making a relatively large incision in the body to gain access to the target of the surgery, as opposed to making a small incision or gaining access endoscopically through a natural orifice
invasive
/ IJÔ-±¹Äå′²õı¹ /
- Relating to a disease or condition that has a tendency to spread, especially a malignant cancer that spreads into healthy tissue.
- Relating to a medical procedure in which a part of the body is entered, as by puncture or incision.
- Not native to and tending to spread widely in a habitat or environment. Invasive species often have few natural predators or other biological controls in their new environment. Although not always considered harmful to an environment, invasive species can become agricultural or ecological pests and can displace native species from their habitats. Invasive species are often introduced to an environment unintentionally, as the zebra mussel was to the Great Lakes, but are sometimes introduced for a purpose, as kudzu was to the southern US, where it was originally planted to control erosion.
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³Ü²Ôi²Ô·±¹²¹î€ƒs¾±±¹±ð adjective
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It’s not ethical to carry out invasive procedures on human brains.
It's helped Neuralink attract lots of investment - as well as scrutiny over the safety and significance of what is an extremely invasive procedure.
"I knew that this kind of predatory, invasive advertising is actually something that we all have a legal right to object to," Ms O'Carroll told Radio 4's Today Programme.
“We had cattle pastures where the native grasslands had been so completely destroyed only the invasive species survived,†he said.
Among other things, the association is unhappy with the prize money formula designed by the tours, the "unsustainable" 11-month schedule and "invasive searches of personal devices".
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