Antibiosis Definition
ăntē-bī-ōsĭs, ăntī-
noun
An association between organisms that is harmful to one of them, as a fungus producing an antibiotic that inhibits neighboring bacteria.
Webster's New World
An association between two or more organisms that is detrimental to at least one of them.
American Heritage Medicine
The antagonistic association between an organism and the metabolic substances produced by another.
American Heritage Medicine
(biology) An association between organisms that is detrimental to one or more of them; especially that due to a metabolic substance produced by one of them.
Wiktionary
The antagonistic association between an organism and the metabolic substances produced by another.
American Heritage
Other Word Forms of Antibiosis
Noun
Singular:
antibiosis
Plural:
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