Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A symbiotic relationship, especially among arthropods and some fishes, in which one organism transports another organism of a different species.
Wiktionary
- n. a symbiotic relationship between two different organisms in which the larger (the host) transports the smaller (the guest)
Etymologies
- New Latin phorēsia, from Greek phorēsis, a carrying; see -phoresis.
Examples
“This ass-riding behavior, called phoresy, has been described in other dung beetles, but the Jacobs paper notes a new case and provides visual evidence in the form of stunning full-color photographs.”
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“This ass-riding behavior, called phoresy, has been described in other dung beetles, but the Jacobs paper notes a new case and provides the first visual evidence in the form of stunning full-color photographs.”
“The technical term for this type of hitchhiking is phoresy.”
“Freshwater larvae in the act of phoresy while attached to a water beetle.”
“phoresy - the now-common behavior of one animal using a completely different species for transportation - has been around for at least 50 million years in these mites.”
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