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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. 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. 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.