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endosymbiont.

Noun
Sci-FiHorrorSettingTechnical
MEANING

An organism living inside another organism’s body or cells in a sustained biological association.

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a smaller organism living within a host; internal biological partnership; an associate distinguished from temporary swallowed food

Words that belong together

  • an intracellular endosymbiont
  • a bacterial endosymbiont

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The bacterial endosymbiont persisted inside the host cells.
The researcher asked whether the internal organism was an endosymbiont rather than material being digested.

Related words

internal symbiotic organismintracellular associate (one case)endosymbiosis
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endosymbiont

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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular endosymbiont; plural endosymbionts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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