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xenobiosis

xenobiosis noun: a form of symbiosis where one species of ant lives with another and the two species raise their young separately.

Noun

xenobiosis (uncountable)

  1. A form of symbiosis where one species of ant lives with another and the two species raise their young separately.
    • Although this explanation is readily suggested by the well-known cases of dulosis and xenobiosis in ants, we are, nevertheless, bound to reject it for the following reasons […]1904, Bulletin of the University of Texas: Scientific series

Origin of xenobiosis

From xeno- + -biosis.

Questions about xenobiosis

What does xenobiosis mean?
Xenobiosis means a form of symbiosis where one species of ant lives with another and the two species raise their young separately.
What part of speech is xenobiosis?
Xenobiosis is a noun.

Words near xenobiosis in the dictionary

  1. xenobiologist
  2. xenobiologists
  3. xenobiology
  4. xenobiont
  5. xenobionts
  6. xenobiosis
  7. xenobiotic
  8. xenobiotically
  9. xenobiotics
  10. xenoblast
  11. xenoblasts

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