Words Like COMMENSAL

We have put together a list of words that are similar to COMMENSAL.

2 Alternative Words Similar to commensal

1 Being Noun      Synonym Words Like Being
2 Organism Noun      Synonym Words Like Organism

8 definitions of commensal

1 Eating together at the same table.
2 In zoology and botany, living with as a tenant or coinhabitant, but not as a parasite; inquiline. See II., 2.
3 One who eats at the same table with another or others.
4 In zoology and botany, one of two animals or plants which live together, but neither at the expense of the other; an animal or a plant as a tenant, but not a true parasite, of another; an inquiline.
5 of a form of symbiosis in which one organism derives a benefit while the other is unaffected
6 An organism partaking in a commensal relationship.
7 either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent
8 living in a state of commensalism
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