symbiosis
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Etymology
editFrom Ancient Greek συμβίωσις (sumbíōsis, “living together”). By surface analysis, sym- + -biosis.
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editsymbiosis (countable and uncountable, plural symbioses)
- A relationship of mutual benefit, especially among different species.
- (ecology) A close, prolonged association between two or more organisms of different species that normally benefits both members. An interspecies cooperation.
- (biology) A close, prolonged association between two or more organisms of different species, regardless of benefit to the members.
- The state of people of different types, races, cultures, communities, etc., living together.
- The occurrence of two different or opposing things in the same time and place.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 135:
- In this peculiar and deadly symbiosis the presence of warfare stimulates trade and the presence of trade stimulates warfare.
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editrelationship of mutual benefit
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