hyperphoresy

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noun

The situation of one organism carrying another organism, which is itself carrying a third organism, due to phoresy.

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Meanings

nounhyperphoresy (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebiologyThe situation of one organism carrying another organism, which is itself carrying a third organism, due to phoresy.

    2011, L. T. Sabagh, R. J. P. Dias, C. W. Branco, C. F. D. Rocha, New records of phoresy and hyperphoresy among treefrogs, ostracods, and ciliates in bromeliad of Atlantic forest, in Biodivers. Conserv. 20, 1837–1841

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    Hyperphoresy, when one organism is being transported by another that is also in the process of being transported, is extremely rare in the fossil record but does occur (Fig. 203).

    2014, David Penney, James E Jepson, Fossil Insects: An introduction to palaeoentomology, →ISBN, page 168

Origin

From hyper- + phoresy.

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