antibiosis

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ -biosis.

Noun

antibiosis (countable and uncountable, plural antibioses)

  1. (ecology) An association between organisms that is detrimental (harmful) to one or more of them; especially that due to a metabolic substance produced by one of them.

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