symbiotic

[ sim-bee-ot-ik, -bahy- ]

/ ˌsɪm biˈɒt ɪk, -baɪ- /

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adjective

living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.

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Sometimes sym·bi·ot·i·cal .

Origin of symbiotic

symbio(sis) + -tic

OTHER WORDS FROM symbiotic

sym·bi·ot·i·cal·ly, adverbnon·sym·bi·ot·ic, adjectivenon·sym·bi·ot·i·cal, adjectivenon·sym·bi·ot·i·cal·ly, adverb

Words nearby symbiotic

sym-, Symbionese, Symbionese Liberation Army, symbiont, symbiosis, symbiotic, symbol, symbolic, symbolical books, symbolic interactionism, symbolic language

How to use symbiotic in a sentence

For example, a number of insects use Hox genes to develop bacteriocytes for their symbiotic partners.
How Two Became One: Origins of a Mysterious Symbiosis Found|Viviane Callier|September 9, 2020|Quanta Magazine
This illustrates the interdependency and symbiotic relationship of stores and e-commerce.
A Corona Xmas: Why physical stores will power online shopping this holiday season|Greg Sterling|September 4, 2020|Search Engine Land
This week’s presentation explores the symbiotic relationship between the two regions, including its effects on business, economics, technology, and culture.
What China has to gain from Africa|Chika Dunga|September 1, 2020|Quartz
Scientists thought gene losses might be most common among symbiotic or parasitic species, which can simplify themselves by outsourcing a lot of their functional needs to their partners or hosts.
By Losing Genes, Life Often Evolved More Complexity|Viviane Callier|September 1, 2020|Quanta Magazine

Lichens are symbiotic composites of fungi and algae or cyanobacteria.
What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory.|Jordana Cepelewicz|July 16, 2020|Quanta Magazine
The relationship between artist and artisan is therefore very symbiotic, says Hetflaisz.
Damien Hirst’s Army of Geppettos|Tim Teeman|December 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On earlier seasons of Louie, the humor and the morality were in perfect symbiotic balance.
Why I Fell in Love With ‘Louie’ Again, Artistic Pretensions and All|Andrew Romano|June 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The symbiotic relationship is part of what The Plant calls its closed-loop system.
Vertical Indoor Farms Are Growing in the U.S.|Miranda Green|May 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A strange symbiotic bond formed between us; their increasing dependency on our resources justifying our continued occupation.
America’s Lost Decade in Iraq: A Marine Officer Looks Back|Benjamin Busch|March 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST
There is a symbiotic and cooperative relationship between Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza and those in Sinai.
Hamas’s Desengaño With Morsi|Hussein Ibish|March 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
This established the important principle of symbiotic fermentation and gave it a rational explanation.
Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists|Various
All about them were curiosities of adaptation, freaks of ecological adjustment, marvels of symbiotic cooperation.
Operation: Outer Space|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
But now there were machines which could enter into a truly symbiotic relationship with humanity.
The Machine That Saved The World|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
In many species the central capsule encloses Xanthell or symbiotic yellow unicellular Alg.
Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia)|Ernst Haeckel
The magter must have caught the symbiotic infection eating some Disan animal.
Planet of the Damned|Harry Harrison