symbiotic
[sim-bee-ot-ik, -bahy-]
- 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
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Contemporary Examples
The symbiotic relationship is part of what The Plant calls its closed-loop system.
There is a symbiotic and cooperative relationship between Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza and those in Sinai.
They had, according to Morgen, “a wonderful, symbiotic relationship with the press.”
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That mat is actually a culture: in technical terms, a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast.
The symbiotic relationship between television and local officials played a huge role.
Historical Examples
Symbiotic: species that live together in a state of symbiosis.
Explanation of Terms Used in EntomologyJohn. B. Smith
The peculiar yellow cells which are found in the central capsule of many Acantharia are symbiotic xanthell (see 76).
This would point to the symbiotic character of galls and their guests.
Disease in PlantsH. Marshall Ward
The light of one animal at least, and I believe many others also, cannot be due to any sort of symbiotic organism.
The Nature of Animal LightE. Newton Harvey
Pierantoni has considered the granules to be symbiotic luminous bacteria, but this is certainly not the case.
The Nature of Animal LightE. Newton Harvey
Word Origin and History for symbiotic
adj.
1882, in biology, from symbiosis. Of human activities, from 1951.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
symbiotic
(sĭm′bē-ŏt′ĭk, -bī-)- Of, resembling, or relating to symbiosis.
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The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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symbiosis
[sĭm′bē-ō′sĭs]
- The close association between two or more organisms of different species, often but not necessarily benefiting each member. The association of algae and fungi in lichens and of bacteria living in the intestines or on the skin of animals are forms of symbiosis. Some scientists believe that many multicellular organisms evolved from symbiotic relationships between unicellular ones and that the DNA-containing organelles within certain eukaryotic cells (such as mitochondria and chloroplasts) are the product of symbiotic relationships in which the participants became interdependent. There are four forms of symbiosis: amensalism, commensalism, mutualism, and parasitism.
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