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symbiogenesis

symbiogenesis noun: the merging of two separate organisms to form a single new organism.

Noun

symbiogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural symbiogeneses)

  1. The merging of two separate organisms to form a single new organism.

Forms of symbiogenesis

pluralsymbiogeneses

Origin of symbiogenesis

From sym- + bio- + -genesis. Coined in German by the Russian lichenologist Konstantin Mereschkowski, in a 1910 paper entitled "Theorie der zwei Plasmaarten als Grundlage der Symbiogenesis, einer neuen Lehre von der Entstehung der Organismen."

Words formed from symbiogenesis

Questions about symbiogenesis

What does symbiogenesis mean?
Symbiogenesis means the merging of two separate organisms to form a single new organism.
What part of speech is symbiogenesis?
Symbiogenesis is a noun.
What is the plural of symbiogenesis?
The plural of symbiogenesis is symbiogeneses.

Words near symbiogenesis in the dictionary

  1. symbiodeme
  2. symbiodemes
  3. symbiodiniacean
  4. symbiodiniaceans
  5. symbiogeneses
  6. symbiogenesis
  7. symbiogenetic
  8. symbiogenetically
  9. symbiogenic
  10. symbiological
  11. symbiology

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