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trophobionts

trophobionts is the plural of trophobiont.

Meaning of trophobiont

Noun

trophobiont (plural trophobionts)

  1. The provider of food in trophobiosis.
    • Ants are integral components of terrestrial ecosystems, owing to their manifold interactions with other organisms. They serve as seed dispersers for plants (myrmecochory), mutualists with sap-sucking insects (trophobionts), and hosts for a wide range of associate organisms (myrmecophiles) and act...2022 September 19, Schultheiss et al., “The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, page 1, column 1

Questions about trophobionts

What is trophobionts the plural of?
Trophobionts is the plural of trophobiont.

Words near trophobionts in the dictionary

  1. trophiless
  2. trophism
  3. trophisms
  4. tropho-
  5. trophobiont
  6. trophobionts
  7. trophobioses
  8. trophobiosis
  9. trophobiotic
  10. trophoblast
  11. trophoblastic

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