Symbiosis
noun
A close interaction between two different kinds of living creatures where both benefit.
The symbiosis between bees and flowers is essential for pollination.
Often appears as...
- mutual symbiosis
- symbiotic relationship
noun
A relationship or business partnership between two or more people, companies or organizations that is mutually beneficial.
The symbiosis between the car industry and oil companies has been strong for many years.
Often appears as...
- economic symbiosis
- corporate symbiosis
noun
In psychology, symbiosis is a dependent relationship between two people, where each person supplies something the other person needs.
Their symbiosis was based on need, she needed company and he needed someone to take care of him.
Often appears as...
- psychological symbiosis
- symbiotic dependence
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noun
A close interaction between two different kinds of living creatures where both benefit.
The symbiosis between bees and flowers is essential for pollination.
Often appears as...
- mutual symbiosis
- symbiotic relationship
noun
A relationship or business partnership between two or more people, companies or organizations that is mutually beneficial.
The symbiosis between the car industry and oil companies has been strong for many years.
Often appears as...
- economic symbiosis
- corporate symbiosis
noun
In psychology, symbiosis is a dependent relationship between two people, where each person supplies something the other person needs.
Their symbiosis was based on need, she needed company and he needed someone to take care of him.
Often appears as...
- psychological symbiosis
- symbiotic dependence
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Nature's Partnerships
Emphasizes the idea of teamwork in nature, where species work together for survival.
Coral reefs exhibit a complex symbiosis with algae.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Equal
One partner may benefit more than the other, but both still gain something in the symbiosis.
In the ocean, some fish offer cleaning services to larger fish through symbiosis.
Pro Tip 3/3Exceeds Survival
Symbiosis can lead to new behaviors or features in species that help them thrive beyond just surviving.
The symbiosis between ants and aphids allows both to thrive.
Pro Tip 1/3Nature's Partnerships
Emphasizes the idea of teamwork in nature, where species work together for survival.
Coral reefs exhibit a complex symbiosis with algae.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Equal
One partner may benefit more than the other, but both still gain something in the symbiosis.
In the ocean, some fish offer cleaning services to larger fish through symbiosis.
Pro Tip 3/3Exceeds Survival
Symbiosis can lead to new behaviors or features in species that help them thrive beyond just surviving.
The symbiosis between ants and aphids allows both to thrive.
Pro Tip 1/3Nature's Partnerships
Emphasizes the idea of teamwork in nature, where species work together for survival.
Coral reefs exhibit a complex symbiosis with algae.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Equal
One partner may benefit more than the other, but both still gain something in the symbiosis.
In the ocean, some fish offer cleaning services to larger fish through symbiosis.
Pro Tip 3/3Exceeds Survival
Symbiosis can lead to new behaviors or features in species that help them thrive beyond just surviving.
The symbiosis between ants and aphids allows both to thrive.
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though when we watched a mongoose he was almost like he was looking for attention as a little pup was trying to death feign in front of a yellow-billed humble now yellow ball at home was never going to eat among those well I shouldn't say never but the chances are highly unlikely they have a completely different symbiosis where they actually help one another so I can't imagine that
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How bacteria "talk" -...
the squid is willing to put up with these shenanigans is because it wants that light and so the way that this symbiosis works is that this little squid lives just off the coast of Hawaii so just in a sort of shallow knee-deep water and the squid is nocturnal so during the day it buries itself in the sand and sleeps but then at night it has
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Bonnie Bassler: The...
That molecule is there, and they're making light. And the reason the squid is willing to put up with these shenanigans is because it wants that light. The way that this symbiosis works is that this little squid lives just off the coast of Hawaii, just in sort of shallow knee-deep water. And the squid is nocturnal,
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Shyam Sankar: The rise...
privacy and civil liberties protections, but privacy and civil liberties are of fundamental importance. That must be acknowledged, and they can't be swept aside, even with the best of intents. So let's explore, through a couple of examples, the impact that technologies built to drive human-computer symbiosis
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Symbiosis: A surprising...
They remember where all those seeds are. They even use landmarks on the landscape -- trees, stumps, rocks -- to triangulate to caches buried deep under the snow. What they don't go back and get, those seeds become whitebark. This symbiosis is so important to both species
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Safari Live - Day 288 PIPE...
its body you'll get most of these herbivores being happy you know inhabited by ticks or mites and these bars that you call ox because we'll always help them or remove them in a kind of relationship that you called symbiosis or a submerged relationship
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The networked beauty of...
and actually allowed humans to eventually evolve. Now, we call this symbiosis a mycorrhiza, myco for fungus, rrhiza for root. So, the fungus and root get together, and they trade for mutual benefit. Now, all trees in all forests all over the world
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Jeremy Jackson: How we...
Except it's supposed to be brown. What happens is that the corals are a symbiosis, and they have these little algal cells that live inside them. And the algae give the corals sugar, and the corals give the algae nutrients and protection.
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The forgotten art of the...
I was having these little adventures with our new family and shooting video along the way, and it was kind of a symbiosis of art and life. And I think that it's no mistake that zoetrope translates into "wheel of life."
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How DARPA is creating...
breakthroughs in electronics and neuroscience and algorithms are coming together to enable a new kind of seamless symbiosis between people and technology it's going to exhilarate us it's going to make us deeply
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Safari Live - Day 133 PIPE...
though when we watched a mongoose he was almost like he was looking for attention as a little pup was trying to death feign in front of a yellow-billed humble now yellow ball at home was never going to eat among those well I shouldn't say never but the chances are highly unlikely they have a completely different symbiosis where they actually help one another so I can't imagine that
Video examples
How bacteria "talk" -...
the squid is willing to put up with these shenanigans is because it wants that light and so the way that this symbiosis works is that this little squid lives just off the coast of Hawaii so just in a sort of shallow knee-deep water and the squid is nocturnal so during the day it buries itself in the sand and sleeps but then at night it has
Video examples
Bonnie Bassler: The...
That molecule is there, and they're making light. And the reason the squid is willing to put up with these shenanigans is because it wants that light. The way that this symbiosis works is that this little squid lives just off the coast of Hawaii, just in sort of shallow knee-deep water. And the squid is nocturnal,
Video examples
Shyam Sankar: The rise...
privacy and civil liberties protections, but privacy and civil liberties are of fundamental importance. That must be acknowledged, and they can't be swept aside, even with the best of intents. So let's explore, through a couple of examples, the impact that technologies built to drive human-computer symbiosis
Video examples
Symbiosis: A surprising...
They remember where all those seeds are. They even use landmarks on the landscape -- trees, stumps, rocks -- to triangulate to caches buried deep under the snow. What they don't go back and get, those seeds become whitebark. This symbiosis is so important to both species
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 288 PIPE...
its body you'll get most of these herbivores being happy you know inhabited by ticks or mites and these bars that you call ox because we'll always help them or remove them in a kind of relationship that you called symbiosis or a submerged relationship
Video examples
The networked beauty of...
and actually allowed humans to eventually evolve. Now, we call this symbiosis a mycorrhiza, myco for fungus, rrhiza for root. So, the fungus and root get together, and they trade for mutual benefit. Now, all trees in all forests all over the world
Video examples
Jeremy Jackson: How we...
Except it's supposed to be brown. What happens is that the corals are a symbiosis, and they have these little algal cells that live inside them. And the algae give the corals sugar, and the corals give the algae nutrients and protection.
Video examples
The forgotten art of the...
I was having these little adventures with our new family and shooting video along the way, and it was kind of a symbiosis of art and life. And I think that it's no mistake that zoetrope translates into "wheel of life."
Video examples
How DARPA is creating...
breakthroughs in electronics and neuroscience and algorithms are coming together to enable a new kind of seamless symbiosis between people and technology it's going to exhilarate us it's going to make us deeply
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Tim Cope
Australian Author
Perhaps most important for nomads was the belief in the symbiosis that existed between wolf and humans on the steppe. Wolves were an integral part of keeping the balance of nature, ensuring that plagues of rabbits and rodents didn't break out, which in turn protected the all-important pasture for the nomads' herds.
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Martin Rees
British Scientist
It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' options - indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.
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Lewis Thomas
American Scientist
We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and the linking of ancestral organisms in symbiosis. Our genomes are catalogues of instructions from all kinds of sources in nature, filed for all kinds of contingencies.
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Joel Salatin
American Author
We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure hygienic and sanitary housing and lounging areas, not to mention clean air, sunshine, and exercise.
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Bjarke Ingels
Danish Architect
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.
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Tom Waits
American Musician
What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.
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Jason Silva
American Director
We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.
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Tabare Vazquez
Uruguayan Statesman
Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
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Lynn Margulis
American Scientist
If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!
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Don Novello
American Writer
There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.
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Tim Cope
Australian Author
Perhaps most important for nomads was the belief in the symbiosis that existed between wolf and humans on the steppe. Wolves were an integral part of keeping the balance of nature, ensuring that plagues of rabbits and rodents didn't break out, which in turn protected the all-important pasture for the nomads' herds.
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Martin Rees
British Scientist
It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' options - indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.
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Lewis Thomas
American Scientist
We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and the linking of ancestral organisms in symbiosis. Our genomes are catalogues of instructions from all kinds of sources in nature, filed for all kinds of contingencies.
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Joel Salatin
American Author
We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure hygienic and sanitary housing and lounging areas, not to mention clean air, sunshine, and exercise.
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Bjarke Ingels
Danish Architect
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.
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Tom Waits
American Musician
What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.
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Jason Silva
American Director
We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.
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Tabare Vazquez
Uruguayan Statesman
Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
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Lynn Margulis
American Scientist
If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!
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Don Novello
American Writer
There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.
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