Symbionese

[ sim-bee-uh-neez, -nees ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Symbionese Liberation Army or its adherents.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Symbionese¹

1973; according to the group's manifesto, “taken from the word symbiosis … a body of dissimilar bodies and organisms living in deep and loving harmony …; -nese probably after Chinese, Japanese, etc.

Example Sentences

Patty Hearst had been kidnapped by, and seemingly joined, the Symbionese Liberation Army.

From Slate

The Symbionese Liberation Army — the tiny cadre of Bay Area radicals that Harris belonged to — learned that Hearst lived without security at that address near campus.

From Los Angeles Times

“Some people” turned out to be a half-dozen or so members of the SLA, the grandiosely named Symbionese Liberation Army.

From Los Angeles Times

Today’s turmoil has yet to reach the magnitude of the late 1960s or the 1970s, when far-left domestic terror groups like the Weather Underground and Symbionese Liberation Army orchestrated scores of bombings.

From Los Angeles Times

Fifty years ago, a small group of left-wing radicals calling themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army broke into a Berkeley apartment and kidnapped 19-year-old Patricia Hearst, shocking the nation and even the world.

From Salon