"symbiont" meaning in English

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          "word": "aposymbiont"
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          "word": "chemosymbiont"
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          "word": "ectosymbiont"
        },
        {
          "word": "endosymbiont"
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        {
          "word": "episymbiont"
        },
        {
          "word": "exosymbiont"
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        {
          "word": "holosymbiont"
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        {
          "word": "intersymbiont"
        },
        {
          "word": "microsymbiont"
        },
        {
          "word": "mycosymbiont"
        },
        {
          "word": "photosymbiont"
        },
        {
          "word": "phytosymbiont"
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        {
          "word": "symbiontic"
        },
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          "word": "symbiontophorous"
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          "ref": "2019 December 9, JoAnna Klein, “Seawater Is Filled With a Sugary Feast. Here’s How Sponges Eat It.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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        "An organism that lives in a symbiotic relationship."
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          "symbiotic",
          "symbiotic"
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          "relationship",
          "relationship"
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        "(ecology) An organism that lives in a symbiotic relationship."
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          "word": "symbiote"
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          "word": "symbiotic"
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          "word": "symbiosis"
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          "sense": "organism in a symbiotic relationship",
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          "word": "simbiont"
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          "sense": "organism in a symbiotic relationship",
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          "word": "symbiont"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "organism in a symbiotic relationship",
          "word": "symbiootti"
        },
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "organism in a symbiotic relationship",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "symbiote"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "organism in a symbiotic relationship",
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          "word": "Symbiont"
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          "roman": "symviotís",
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          "sense": "organism in a symbiotic relationship",
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          "word": "simbionte"
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          "sense": "organism in a symbiotic relationship",
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          "sense": "organism in a symbiotic relationship",
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          "word": "simbionte"
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          "roman": "simbiónt",
          "sense": "organism in a symbiotic relationship",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "симбио́нт"
        },
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          "word": "simbionte"
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    {
      "word": "photosymbiont"
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    {
      "word": "symbiotic"
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      "sense": "organism in a symbiotic relationship",
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "Symbiont"
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      "sense": "organism in a symbiotic relationship",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "simbionte"
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      "word": "symbiont"
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      "word": "simbionte"
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      "roman": "simbiónt",
      "sense": "organism in a symbiotic relationship",
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      "word": "симбио́нт"
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