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TROPHOBIOSIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trophobiosis mean?
• TROPHOBIOSIS (noun)
The noun TROPHOBIOSIS has 1 sense:
1. a symbiotic relation in which one organism protects the other in return for some kind of food product
Familiarity information: TROPHOBIOSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A symbiotic relation in which one organism protects the other in return for some kind of food product
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("trophobiosis" is a kind of...):
mutualism; symbiosis (the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other)
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