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The condition of living within the body or cells of another organism; an instance of an organism so living.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, ecology, natural-sciences
Examples
- 2014, Robert E. Blankenship, Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis, Wiley Blackwell, 2nd Edition, page 226, Evidence is now overwhelming that several groups of eukaryotic algae originated from a secondary endosymbiosis, in which a eukaryotic alga was incorporated into a second host (Palmer and Delwiche, 1996; Delwiche and Palmer, 1997; Delwiche, 1999; Keeling, 2010, 2013; Curtis et al., 2012).
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1n̥dóm Proto-Hellenic *éndon Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon)der. English endo- English symbiosis English endosymbiosis From endo- + symbiosis.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
內共生 /内共生
(nèigòngshēng)
— living within another organism
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Estonian:
endosümbioos
— living within another organism
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French:
endosymbiose
— living within another organism
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German:
Endosymbiose
— living within another organism
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Hebrew:
אנדוסימביוזה
— living within another organism
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Korean:
내공생
(naegongsaeng)
— living within another organism
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Occitan:
endosimbiòsi
— living within another organism
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Portuguese:
endossimbiose
— living within another organism
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Russian:
эндосимбио́з
(endosimbióz)
— living within another organism
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Spanish:
endosimbiosis
— living within another organism
