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antibiosis definition

anti·bio·sis (-bī ō′sis)

noun

Biol. an association between organisms that is harmful to one of them, as a fungus producing an antibiotic that inhibits neighboring bacteria

Etymology: ModL < anti- + -biosis

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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