Usually means: Spreads aggressively, displacing native species.
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  1. invasive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. invasive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. invasive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. invasive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. invasive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Invasive, invasive: Wordnik
  7. invasive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. invasive: Wiktionary
  9. invasive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. invasive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. invasive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. invasive: Dictionary.com
  13. Invasive (disambiguation), Invasive (medical), Invasive (species), Invasive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Invasive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. invasive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. invasive: Rhymezone
  17. Invasive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. invasive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. invasive: Free Dictionary
  20. invasive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. invasive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. invasive: Legal dictionary

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  3. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  4. Invasive: MedFriendly Glossary
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  6. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  7. invasive: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  8. Invasive: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  9. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
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  11. invasive: Medical dictionary
  12. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. invasive: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

(Note: See invasiveness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or pertaining to invasion; offensive.
adjective:  (military, also figuratively) That invades a foreign country using military force; also, militarily aggressive.
adjective:  (by extension)
adjective:  Intrusive on one's privacy, rights, sphere of activity, etc.
adjective:  Originating externally.
adjective:  (biology) Of an animal or plant: that grows (especially uncontrollably) in environments which do not harbour natural enemies, often to the detriment of native species or of food or garden flora and fauna.
adjective:  (medicine, surgery) Of a procedure: involving the entry of an instrument into part of the body.
adjective:  (pathology) Of a carcinoma or other abnormal growth: that invades healthy tissue, especially rapidly.
noun:  (biology) An invasive organism, such as an animal or plant.

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