Meanings
- not comparablePertaining to plesiobiosis.
Schooling fish probably mix in this fashion on occasion, an association analogous to the plesiobiotic nesting of social insects.
2000, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology, →ISBN, page 3562 more examples
As restricted in the present paper, plesiobiotic, or double nests comprise only those cases in which two, or rarely more, colonies of ants of different species excavate their galleries in close contact with one another.
1901, The American Naturalist - Volume 35, page 517Plesiobionts 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
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