commensal's Usage Examples:

Scioberetia; commensal with a Spatangid.

petromyzon is a frequent commensal in the gill cavity of some Cladoceran Crustacean Eurycereus lamellatus.

Among many remarkable qualities they have been distinguished from the earliest times by a species of commensalism, or power of living among other nations without becoming either socially merged or politically distinct.

commensal organisms whose presence is essential to our health.

commensal bacteria in their mouths and can be infected during birth.

commensal flora can also cause disease.

commensal relationships is the sharing of the shell with a species of sea anemone.

commensal rodents in English dwellings as revealed by the 1996 English house condition survey.

The human commensals were the totem-kin, whom Robertson Smith conceived to have been in the habit of sharing a common meal in daily life, or at least of not mixing with other kins.

They have a well-developed proboscis which is used as a suctorial organ; some are abyssal, but the majority are either commensals or parasites of Echinoderms.

From this we may pass through various grades of " commensalism," like that of the hermit-crab with its protective anemones, to the cases of actual parasitism.

Ephippodonta; commensal with shrimp Axius.

Synonyms:

being, organism,

Antonyms:

prokaryote, eukaryote, stander,