Definition of Bionts

1. biont [n] - See also: biont

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bionts

bionic
bionic man
bionic woman
bionically
bionics
bionomic
bionomical
bionomics
bionomies
bionomist
bionomists
bionomy
bions
biont
biontic
bionts (current term)
bionucleonics
biooncology
bioorganic
bioorganism
bioorganisms
bioorganometallic
bioorthogonal
biopack
biopatent
biopatents
biopathology
biopelagic
biopesticidal
biopesticide

Literary usage of Bionts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Finally, ecological guilds, or types of sym- bionts, may be illustrated by lianes, epiphytes, saprophytes and parasites. This latter series takes but little ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"The process of regeneration in unicellular and multicellular bionts ;. The phenomena of of the duplication of parts ; 3. ..."

3. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1905)
"... (2) symbiosis in which the total aggregate result is wholly different from any of the sym- bionts ; Individua'tion, a synonym of the last (2). ..."

4. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1907)
"Wherever there is moisture, on the trunks of trees, on rocks, on damp soil, either alone or as one of the sym- bionts of the lichen body, ..."

5. The Protozoa by Gary Nathan Calkins (1901)
"In many cases, also, green algal cells live as sym- bionts within the endoplasm. Le Dantec ('92) found that these cells ..."

6. Plant Studies: An Elementary Botany by John Merle Coulter (1900)
"... If a Lichen be sectioned, the relation between the sym- bionts will be seen (Fig. 272). The fungus makes the bulk of the body with its interwoven ..."

7. The Analysis of Racial Descent in Animals by Thomas Harrison Montgomery (1906)
"... kinds of development, in that the generative cycle does not consist of a single physiological individual or bion, but is composed of two or more bionts. ..."

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