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How to use symbiosis in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Symbiosis means a relationship of mutual benefit, especially among different species. Example: “Bees and flowers display symbiosis. The bees get nectar and the flowers get pollinated.”

Examples of symbiosis by meaning

nounThe close and long-term relationship or interaction between two or more different species in which all organisms...

  • Bees and flowers display symbiosis. The bees get nectar and the flowers get pollinated.

nounThe occurrence of two different or opposing things in the same time and place.

  • In this peculiar and deadly symbiosis the presence of warfare stimulates trade and the presence of trade stimulates warfare.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London...

More sentences with symbiosis

  • Many of the civilisational achievements of Mesopotamia are the product of that symbiosis.2010 November 10, Michael Wood, “(please specify the article title)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News &…. From the entry of
  • This new symbiosis was also observable in more serious Cornish literature, for example in Alan M.2005, The Cornish Overseas: A History of Cornwall's 'great Emigration'. From the entry Brysonesque
  • And to ensure that this symbiosis would be real, the Yoort, too, were modified.1999, K. A. Applegate, The Attack (Animorphs), volume 26. From the entry too
  • This week my planimal friend Daedalus continues his exploration of human symbiosis with useful organisms.1970, New Scientist - Volume 47, page 649. From the entry planimal
  • This ontological symbiosis also explains his misogyny.2005, Jeff Johnson, William Inge And The Subversion Of Gender, →ISBN, page 122. From the entry misogyny
  • Are we suffering from exploitation or from negative symbiosis?1977 December 10, Arnold W. Klassen, “Looking For Alternatives: A New Political Analysis”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 23…. From the entry close to the bone
  • Due to this process, the mesorhizobia native to New Zealand, obtained nod genes (present in symbiosis islands) from an inoculant strain M.2015 October 24, “Phylogeny of Symbiotic Genes and the Symbiotic Properties of Rhizobia Specific to Astragalus glycyphyllos L.”, in PLOS…. From the entry mesorhizobia
  • This special symbiosis reaffirmed the cycle of life as the friendly birds mysteriously returned each spring, the livingest of creatures, from nowhere.2003, James Alder, Birds and Flowers of the Castle of Mey and Balmoral, page 24. From the entry livingest
  • Although Chodorow acknowledges the contributions of biology to the infant's matrisexual experience and subsequent maternal symbiosis, she maintains that the oedipal crisis is culturally specific.1988, Madeleine R. Grumet, Bitter Milk: Women and Teaching, page 17. From the entry matrisexual
  • More recently, however, it has become increasingly realized that symbiosis is at the core of the evolution of evolutionary levels and mechanisms—of a metaevolution—in the microevolution of life.1980, Erich Jantsch, “Ethics and Evolution”, in The North American Review, volume 265, number 3, page 16. From the entry metaevolution

Meaning of symbiosis

  1. noun A relationship of mutual benefit, especially among different species.
  2. noun The close and long-term relationship or interaction between two or more different species.
  3. noun The close and long-term relationship or interaction between two or more different species in which all organisms benefit; mutualism.

Full definition of symbiosis

Questions about symbiosis in a sentence

How do you use symbiosis in a sentence?
Symbiosis is used as a noun. For example: “Bees and flowers display symbiosis. The bees get nectar and the flowers get pollinated.”
What is a short sentence with symbiosis?
“This ontological symbiosis also explains his misogyny.”
What does symbiosis mean?
Symbiosis means a relationship of mutual benefit, especially among different species.

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