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ANTIBIOSIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An association between organisms that is harmful to one of them or between organisms and a metabolic product of another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("antibiosis" is a kind of...):
association ((ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species)