Crossword clues for symbiotic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dependent \De*pend"ent\, a. [L. dependens, -entis, p. pr. dependere. See Depend, and cf. Dependant.]
Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
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Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. Opposite of independent. [Narrower terms: interdependent, mutualist, mutually beneficial; parasitic, parasitical, leechlike, bloodsucking; subordinate; underage; myrmecophilous; symbiotic] Also See: unfree.
England, long dependent and degraded, was again a power of the first rank.
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conditional; contingent or conditioned. Opposite of unconditional.
Syn: qualified.
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addicted to drugs.
Syn: addicted, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out.
Dependent covenant or Dependent contract (Law), one not binding until some connecting stipulation is performed.
Dependent variable (Math.), a varying quantity whose changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by changes in another variable, which is called the independent variable.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context biology English) Of, or relating to symbiosis; living together. 2 Of a relationship with mutual benefit between two individuals or organisms. n. (context astronomy English) symbiotic star
WordNet
adj. used of organisms (especially of different species) living together but not necessarily in a relationship beneficial to each
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "symbiotic".
Some of the hardier species had developed ways of eating the more noxious chemicals, and a few seaweeds had developed a symbiotic relationship with them, carrying the algae in their nodelike floats or under the broad leaves, until the entire coast was poisoned.
The wood nymphs had a symbiotic relationship with plants but not much with animals of any sort.
One of these symbiotic microorganisms is a protozoan named polymastigote, which moves around only because spirochete bacteria attach to it like tiny outboard motors.
Five members of a gang of urban vandals and thieves calling themselves the Symbiotic Maoist Falange were put away in an hour-long firefight in which three hundred fifty police SWAT forces, FBI men, and CIA advisers poured thousands of rounds into the house in which they were holed up.
As one aspect of their symbiotic affair, OPEC served the Mother Company by creating shortages when She wanted to build pipelines over fragile tundra, or block major governmental investment in research into solar and wind energy, or create natural gas shortfalls when pressing for removal of price controls.
But perhaps the most remarkable fact about this satyr race is that they are symbiotes, and that their symbiotic partners are a sort of creature that never evolved on Earth and that has a way of life with which we are quite unfamiliar.
Hataz colony as it used to be: curious people, wondering at the symbiotic tendrils that had made biological alliances with so many life-forms, so many different clades.
So these two typologies can, in essence become a self-supporting, symbiotic system.
We've done something of a similar nature, you know, when we located bacteria from wounds and learned how to disimprove their symbiotic bacteriophages so that they would kill their hosts.
We’ve done something of a similar nature, you know, when we located bacteria from wounds and learned how to disimprove their symbiotic bacteriophages so that they would kill their hosts.
Mike had never seen anyone without a symbiotic processor play the departure/destination version of Celest at level nine.
There's that symbiotic relationship between the frayas and the chalot, their food plant during the breeding period.
We can assume that many of them had a similar symbiotic relationship with the chalot the fraya still has, because the adaptations the chalot performs vary with the species and are according to the needs of the species.
The mutating coprophilous was making the necessary changes to its hosts so that it could exist in a symbiotic relationship with them without causing their destruction.
Instead, he'd rerouted the cranial nerve that would normally control the tiny muscles in the human face to service the kisheer, the symbiotic organ that sealed his mouth and nose and ears under vacuum, providing him with oxygen on the Outside.