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photobionts

photobionts is the plural of photobiont.

Meaning of photobiont

Noun

photobiont (plural photobionts)

  1. A photosynthetic symbiont, especially those in symbiosis with fungi in lichen.
    • It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species.2022, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, Microbial Symbionts, page 811

Questions about photobionts

What is photobionts the plural of?
Photobionts is the plural of photobiont.

Words near photobionts in the dictionary

  1. photobiomodulation
  2. photobiomodulatory
  3. photobionic
  4. photobiont
  5. photobiontic
  6. photobionts
  7. photobiophysical
  8. photobiophysics
  9. photobioreactor
  10. photobioreactors
  11. photobiostimulation

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