symbiotic

[ sim-bee-ot-ik, -bahy- ]

adjective

1. living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship:

   Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.

Other Words From

• symbi·oti·cal·ly adverb
• nonsym·bi·otic adjective
• nonsym·bi·oti·cal adjective
• nonsym·bi·oti·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of symbiotic¹

symbio(sis) + -tic

Example Sentences

Corals exist in a symbiotic partnership with a special type of marine plant - a species of algae - which lives inside the coral, providing it with food and giving it its bright colour.

From BBC

Corals exist in a symbiotic partnership with a special type of marine plant - an algae - which lives inside the coral, providing it with food and giving it its bright colour.

From BBC

Starting as like-minded college students at Western Washington University in 2012, the pair have become a symbiotic partnership known worldwide that lives in the space between rave culture and arena pop.

From Los Angeles Times

Microbiologists have long known that those animals capable of digesting lignin -- like termites -- host specialized, symbiotic colonies of microbes in their guts that do the work of breaking the lignin down for them.

From Science Daily

Interestingly, the symbiotic bacteria don't seem to depend on the lucinids.

From Science Daily

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