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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Living as a parasite or symbiont within the tissues of a host.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Living as a parasite within the tissue of the host, as Chrysophlyctis endobiotica in potato tubers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of a parasite or symbiont living within the tissues of a host

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  • "The fat and other elements resulting from the decomposition of the organic material would have enriched the sediment around and above the body, and this can be seen in the numerous burrowing structures in this sediment, created by endobiotic organisms, such as crustaceans and polychaete annelids", adds Muñíz.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • "The fat and other elements resulting from the decomposition of the organic material would have enriched the sediment around and above the body, and this can be seen in the numerous burrowing structures in this sediment, created by endobiotic organisms, such as crustaceans and polychaete annelids", adds Muñíz.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • "The fat and other elements resulting from the decomposition of the organic material would have enriched the sediment around and above the body, and this can be seen in the numerous burrowing structures in this sediment, created by endobiotic organisms, such as crustaceans and polychaete annelids", adds Muñíz.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

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