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nepenthebionts

nepenthebionts is the plural of nepenthebiont.

Meaning of nepenthebiont

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

Questions about nepenthebionts

What is nepenthebionts the plural of?
Nepenthebionts is the plural of nepenthebiont.

Words near nepenthebionts in the dictionary

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

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