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COMMENSALISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does commensalism mean?
• COMMENSALISM (noun)
The noun COMMENSALISM has 1 sense:
1. the relation between two different kinds of organisms when one receives benefits from the other without damaging it
Familiarity information: COMMENSALISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The relation between two different kinds of organisms when one receives benefits from the other without damaging it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("commensalism" is a kind of...):
interdependence; interdependency; mutuality (a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups))
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