Xenobiosis
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A form of symbiosis where one species of ant lives with another and the two species raise their young separately. uncountable
"Although this explanation is readily suggested by the well-known cases of dulosis and xenobiosis in ants, we are, nevertheless, bound to reject it for the following reasons […]"
Example
More examples"Although this explanation is readily suggested by the well-known cases of dulosis and xenobiosis in ants, we are, nevertheless, bound to reject it for the following reasons […]"
Etymology
From xeno- + -biosis.
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