Meanings
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noun
The occurrence of two different or opposing things in the same time and place.
In this peculiar and deadly symbiosis the presence of warfare stimulates trade and the presence of trade stimulates warfare.
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Derived forms
aposymbiosisasymbiosischemosymbiosisectosymbiosisendosymbiosisepisymbiosisexosymbiosisparasymbiosisphotosymbiosisphylosymbiosispresymbiosissymbiology
Related forms
semiosissymbiontsymbiote
Etymology
From Ancient Greek συμβίωσις (sumbíōsis, “living together”). By surface analysis, sym- + -biosis.