commensal
/kuh-men-suhl/US // kəˈmɛn səl //UK // (kəˈmɛnsəl) //
共生的,共生,共生的人,共生者
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : eating together at the same table.
- : Ecology. living with, on, or in another, without injury to either.
- : Sociology. not competing while residing in or occupying the same area as another individual or group having independent or different values or customs.
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a companion at table.
- : Ecology. a commensal organism.
Examples
The term described the “ecological community of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic microorganisms” that live in and on our body.
The shells of hermit-crabs serve frequently as the home of other animals which live with them a commensal life.
Pinnixa cylindrica, a related species, lives in the tubes of large annelid worms as a commensal.
Heretofore, as far as I know, it has only been recorded as a tube commensal with a large Amphitrite.
Plants or other materials used in their construction and any commensal arthropods present were saved and later identified.
From them Schaudinn decided that the poisonous action of the mosquito bite is caused by an enzyme from a commensal fungus.
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