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TROPHOBIOSIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A symbiotic relation in which one organism protects the other in return for some kind of food product
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("trophobiosis" is a kind of...):
mutualism; symbiosis (the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other)