Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or resembling symbiosis; living in that kind of consociation called symbiosis; exhibiting or having the character of symbiosis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, or living in, a state of symbiosis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology Of, or relating to
symbiosis ;living together . - adjective Of a relationship with
mutual benefit between twoindividuals ororganisms . - noun astronomy
symbiotic star
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective used of organisms (especially of different species) living together but not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you can let your readers know about this page it will be more popular and your own blog will receive more traffic as a consequence -- it's what you call a symbiotic relationship and it's lovely.
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Second, there is a great deal of consensus for endosymbiosis — the idea that prokaryotes in symbiotic relationships eventually led or helped to lead to eukaryotes.
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Some of these odd-couple partnerships have their roots in symbiotic benefit: Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Bill Frist all made common cause with Clinton as a means of moderating their partisan image, just as she has used alliances with previous conservative critics to moderate hers.
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Some of these odd-couple partnerships have their roots in symbiotic benefit: Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Bill Frist all made common cause with Clinton as a means of moderating their partisan image, just as she has used alliances with previous conservative critics to moderate hers.
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Some of these odd-couple partnerships have their roots in symbiotic benefit: Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Bill Frist all made common cause with Clinton as a means of moderating their partisan image, just as she has used alliances with previous conservative critics to moderate hers.
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Maintaining that fundamentalism often exists in symbiotic relationship with an aggressive modernity, each impelling the other on to greater excess, she suggests compassion as a way to defuse what is now an intensifying conflict.
The Battle For God: Summary and book reviews of The Battle For God by Karen Armstrong. 2000
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It would have failed without the two forces in symbiotic relationship.
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Thus, the harbinger would conclude that in general terms, if the tie were to be fairly implemented and other elements of the relationship were equally scrutinised to the benefit of long term symbiotic operational harmony, neither party would complain in the most part.
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Thus, the harbinger would conclude that in general terms, if the tie were to be fairly implemented and other elements of the relationship were equally scrutinised to the benefit of long term symbiotic operational harmony, neither party would complain in the most part.
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But it also fits with other evidence of a long-term symbiotic relationship between the Bushes and the bin-Ladens.
Consortiumnews.com 2009
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