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inquilinous

inquilinous adjective: that lives in the dwelling place of another species.

Adjective

inquilinous (not comparable)

  1. That lives in the dwelling place of another species
    • Sponges influence macrofaunal community composition by providing habitat for inquilines (e.g., among the inquilinous amphipods, a diversity of sebids, stenothoids, thaumatelsonids, colomastigids and leucothoids were found with the sponges).2015 December 1, “Macrofaunal Patterns in and around du Couedic and Bonney Submarine Canyons, South Australia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about inquilinous

What does inquilinous mean?
Inquilinous means that lives in the dwelling place of another species.
What part of speech is inquilinous?
Inquilinous is an adjective.

Words near inquilinous in the dictionary

  1. inquilinaje
  2. inquiline
  3. inquilines
  4. inquilinism
  5. inquilino
  6. inquilinous
  7. inquinate
  8. inquinated
  9. inquinates
  10. inquinating
  11. inquination

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