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nepenthebiont

nepenthebiont noun: any animal that lives in, and is dependent on, the pitcher of a Nepenthes pitcher plant.

Noun

nepenthebiont (plural nepenthebionts)

  1. Any animal that lives in, and is dependent on, the pitcher of a Nepenthes pitcher plant.
    • Nepenthebiont animals are characteristic of the pitchers and their aquatic stages are not known to occur in other habitats.1983, John Howard Frank, Phytotelmata: Terrestrial Plants as Hosts for Aquatic Insect Communities
    • Nepenthebiont species normally live only in pithers^([sic]) and these account for 66% of the pitcher fauna found in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.1984, Anthony J. Whitten, The Ecology of Sumatra, page 349

Forms of nepenthebiont

pluralnepenthebionts

Origin of nepenthebiont

From Nepenthes + -biont.

Questions about nepenthebiont

What does nepenthebiont mean?
Nepenthebiont means any animal that lives in, and is dependent on, the pitcher of a Nepenthes pitcher plant.
What part of speech is nepenthebiont?
Nepenthebiont is a noun.
What is the plural of nepenthebiont?
The plural of nepenthebiont is nepenthebionts.

Words near nepenthebiont in the dictionary

  1. Nepean
  2. nepenth
  3. nepenthaceous
  4. nepenthe
  5. nepenthean
  6. nepenthebiont
  7. nepenthebionts
  8. nepenthes
  9. nepenthesin
  10. nepenthesins
  11. nepenths

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