mutualist
[ myōō′chōō-ə-lĭst ]
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n.
symbion
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Probably some purely beneficial organisms, true mutualist microbes that disappeared without our noticing.
An Epidemic of Absence: Destroying the Bugs in Our Bodies Can Be Dangerous to Our Health|Moises Velasquez-Manoff|September 9, 2012|DAILY BEASTNotably, the gilt catfish, which would undoubtedly die if deprived of its mutualist, the Gyropeltes.
The Dawn of Reason|James Weir