symbioses

symbioses is the plural of symbiosis.

symbioses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of symbiose.

Meaning of symbiosis

symbiosis (countable and uncountable, plural symbioses)

A relationship of mutual benefit, especially among different species.
The close and long-term relationship or interaction between two or more different species.
1. (especially) The close and long-term relationship or interaction between two or more different species in which all organisms benefit; mutualism.
  - Bees and flowers display symbiosis. The bees get nectar and the flowers get pollinated.
The state of people of different types, races, cultures, communities, etc., living together.
The 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: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 135

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

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

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