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commensalism

noun
/kəˈmɛnsəˌlɪzm̩/

Etymology

From commensal + -ism.

  1. derived from commensālis
  2. derived from commensal
  3. inherited from commensal
  4. suffixed as commensalism — “commensal + ism”

Definitions

  1. A sharing of the same environment by two organisms where one species benefits and the…

    A sharing of the same environment by two organisms where one species benefits and the other is unaffected. An example is barnacles on whales.

  2. The act of eating together

    The act of eating together; table fellowship.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for commensalism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA