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symbiose

symbiose verb: to take part in symbiosis.

Verb

symbiose (third-person singular simple present symbioses, present participle symbiosing, simple past and past participle symbiosed)

  1. To take part in symbiosis.
    • One strain symbiosed with seventeen of the twenty-one species, whereas another symbiosed with only five.1945, J. K. Wilson, The Symbiotic Performance of Isolates from Soybean with Species of Crotalaria and Certain Other Plants

Forms of symbiose

third-person singular presentsymbioses
present participlesymbiosing
past participlesymbiosed
pastsymbiosed

Origin of symbiose

Back-formation from symbiosis.

Questions about symbiose

What does symbiose mean?
Symbiose means to take part in symbiosis.
What part of speech is symbiose?
Symbiose is a verb.
What is the past tense of symbiose?
The past tense of symbiose is symbiosed.

Words near symbiose in the dictionary

  1. symbiontism
  2. symbiontophorous
  3. symbionts
  4. symbiophagic
  5. symbiophagy
  6. symbiose
  7. symbiosed
  8. symbioses
  9. symbiosing
  10. symbiosis
  11. symbiosism

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