Meanings
verbsymbiose (third-person singular simple present symbioses, present participle symbiosing, simple past and past participle symbiosed)
present singular third person symbioses · participle present symbiosing · participle past symbiosed · past symbiosed
- To take part in symbiosis.
One strain symbiosed with seventeen of the twenty-one species, whereas another symbiosed with only five.
1945, J. K. Wilson, The Symbiotic Performance of Isolates from Soybean with Species of Crotalaria and Certain Other Plants
Origin
Back-formation from symbiosis.
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