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hyperphoresy

hyperphoresy noun: the situation of one organism carrying another organism, which is itself carrying a third organism, due to phoresy.

Noun

hyperphoresy (uncountable)

  1. The situation of one organism carrying another organism, which is itself carrying a third organism, due to phoresy.
    • 2011, L. T. Sabagh, R. J. P. Dias, C. W. Branco, C. F. D. Rocha, New records of phoresy and hyperphoresy among treefrogs, ostracods, and ciliates in bromeliad of Atlantic forest, in Biodivers. Conserv. 20, 1837–1841
    • Hyperphoresy, when one organism is being transported by another that is also in the process of being transported, is extremely rare in the fossil record but does occur (Fig. 203).2014, David Penney, James E Jepson, Fossil Insects: An introduction to palaeoentomology, →ISBN, page 168

Origin of hyperphoresy

From hyper- + phoresy.

Words formed from hyperphoresy

Questions about hyperphoresy

What does hyperphoresy mean?
Hyperphoresy means the situation of one organism carrying another organism, which is itself carrying a third organism, due to phoresy.
What part of speech is hyperphoresy?
Hyperphoresy is a noun.

Words near hyperphoresy in the dictionary

  1. hyperphilias
  2. hyperphonation
  3. hyperphonations
  4. hyperphonon
  5. hyperphonons
  6. hyperphoresy
  7. hyperphoretic
  8. hyperphoria
  9. hyperphorias
  10. hyperphoric
  11. hyperphorics

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