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cytobionts

cytobionts is the plural of cytobiont.

Meaning of cytobiont

Noun

cytobiont (plural cytobionts)

  1. An organism involved in cytobiosis.
    • There is little or no probability of a nonphotosynthetic eukaryotic cytobiont existing in nonparasitic cytobiosis with a nonphotosynthetic host because of too great a similarity, and therefore competition, in nutritional requirements.1983, Kwang W. Jeon, Intracellular Symbiosis, page 4

Questions about cytobionts

What is cytobionts the plural of?
Cytobionts is the plural of cytobiont.

Words near cytobionts in the dictionary

  1. cytobiological
  2. cytobiologist
  3. cytobiologists
  4. cytobiology
  5. cytobiont
  6. cytobionts
  7. cytobiosis
  8. cytobiotic
  9. cytoblast
  10. cytoblastema
  11. cytoblastemas

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