Words Like COMMENSAL
    
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            2 Alternative Words Similar to commensal
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        8 definitions of commensal
           
        
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        Eating together at the same table.
    
    
    
 
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        In zoology and botany, living with as a tenant or coinhabitant, but not as a parasite; inquiline. See II., 2.
    
    
    
 
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        One who eats at the same table with another or others.
    
    
    
 
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        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.
    
    
    
 
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        of a form of symbiosis in which one organism derives a benefit while the other is unaffected
    
    
    
 
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        An organism partaking in a commensal relationship.
    
    
    
 
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        either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent
    
    
    
 
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        living in a state of commensalism