commensal

How To Use commensal In A Sentence

• This species is also closely associated with colonies of various seabirds and marine mammals; it feeds among birds and seals and has been considered a commensal of those colonial animals.
• `The bacteria in the cytoplasm are commensal, but not symbiotic - they help the cell respire and metabolize its food. VITALS
• Nalaqtuk niqiliriiq nirriyaktuqtuq tugagauyuk-tigutuinnaq complementary restricted commensalism Climate change impacts on Canadian Inuit in Nunavut
• These blend sociability and conversation, keynotes of the Scottish Enlightenment, with more universal practices such as commensality and drinking. OUPblog
• He uses terms like commensalism and epiphyte, and primary and secondary forest, and crepuscular; and our brains scramble to keep up. Valerie Tarico: Madagascar: West Knows Best
• We saw several fist-sized sea squirts which were bright pink in colour, and only when studying the photographs afterwards noticed that each was attended by a number of well-camouflaged commensal prawns, also pink.
• He uses terms like commensalism and epiphyte, and primary and secondary forest, and crepuscular; and our brains scramble to keep up. Valerie Tarico: Madagascar: West Knows Best
• It may be that their main metabolic interaction is with bacterial commensals, rather than directly with the insect host.
• At least one report suggests that the number of bacterial strains that are symbiotic or commensal is limited.
• He who lives at the expense of another, and at his table, is his "commensal". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman