Epibiosis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A relationship between two organisms, one of which lives or grows on the other, but is not parasitic on it countable, uncountable

    "Within this size group, the epibiosis trophic strategy identified in the meiobenthic harpacticoid copepod (MT2) was present only at this site."

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"Within this size group, the epibiosis trophic strategy identified in the meiobenthic harpacticoid copepod (MT2) was present only at this site."

Etymology

From epi- + -biosis.

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