Definition of Commensally

1. Adverb. In a commensal manner.

Partainyms: Commensal

Definition of Commensally

1. Adverb. In a commensal manner. ¹

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Definition of Commensally

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Commensally

commendatories
commendators
commendatory
commended
commender
commenders
commendest
commendeth
commending
commends
commensal
commensal parasite
commensalism
commensalisms
commensality
commensally (current term)
commensals
commensation
commensurabilities
commensurability
commensurable
commensurableness
commensurably
commensurate
commensurately
commensurateness
commensurating
commensuration
commensurations
commensurator

Literary usage of Commensally

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

1. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"Some PELECYPODA live commensally or parasitically on or hi the bodies of ascidians, sponges, and echinoderms. Classification. — The PELECYPODA are divided ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"... from the Devonian has well-marked tabulate pores, and is often found associated commensally with another coral ..."

3. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"... (Verrill). or cerebral organ: 1 genus and 3 species, living commensally in the branchial chamber of marine and freshwater mollusks; cosmopolitan. ..."

4. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"... companionship, or other helpfulness for his care and feeding, so do we know of hundreds of kinds of other insects that live commensally with ants, ..."

5. Jesuit Education: Its History and Principles Viewed in the Light of Modern by Robert Schwickerath (1903)
"His numerous publications on the beetles living commensally with ants and termites, have been styled "classic" by the leading English, German and French ..."

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