ANTIBIOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antibiosis mean? 

• ANTIBIOSIS (noun)
  The noun ANTIBIOSIS has 1 sense:

1. an association between organisms that is harmful to one of them or between organisms and a metabolic product of another

  Familiarity information: ANTIBIOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTIBIOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An association between organisms that is harmful to one of them or between organisms and a metabolic product of another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("antibiosis" is a kind of...):

association ((ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species)