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- noun Plural form of
symbiont .
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Examples
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The partners are known as symbionts and the sum of the partnership as the holobiont.
Signs of the Times 2010
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Other, more agreeable, microbes (known as symbionts) have taken a different evolutionary path, and have established beneficial relationships with their hosts.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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In a review to be published in Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining, Scharf and his colleague Aurelien Tartar describe how the enzymes produced by both termites and the micro-organisms that inhabit their gut - known as symbionts - could help to produce ethanol from non-edible plant material such as straw and wood.
Peak Oil News 2008
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It is when this second group of Ina are killed with two symbionts surviving, that Shori and her group flee to another Ina family in California where she finds further answers.
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It is thought that she and her whole family of vampires and symbionts were all killed in this terrible attack.
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It is thought that she and her whole family of vampires and symbionts were all killed in this terrible attack.
“Fledgling” by Octavia E. Butler (Seven Stories Press, 2005) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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It is when this second group of Ina are killed with two symbionts surviving, that Shori and her group flee to another Ina family in California where she finds further answers.
“Fledgling” by Octavia E. Butler (Seven Stories Press, 2005) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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We are symbionts, controlled by a different life form with priorities of its own.
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Corals that do not have algal symbionts can also form significant reef communities in deeper, darker, and colder waters, but these communities are distinguished as cold-water coral bioherms.
Coral reef 2010
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The coral animal apparently derives energy and nutrients through photosynthesis by the algal symbionts, which enhances its growth and allows it to thrive in nutrient-poor conditions.
Coral reef 2010
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