plesiobiont

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noun

A social insect or species that lives in a plesiobiotic manner.

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Meanings

nounplesiobiont (plural plesiobionts)

plural plesiobionts

  1. A social insect or species that lives in a plesiobiotic manner.

    Plesiobionts differ from each other both in morphology and in behaviour (e.g., in their foraging strategies), and at least one of the plesiobiotic pair is a submissive species.

    2013, O Kanizsai, G Lőrinczi, L Gallé, “Nesting associations without interdependence: a preliminary review on plesiobiosis in ants”, in Psyche: A Journal of Entomology

Origin

From plesio- + -biont.

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