symbiote

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If they do some BS where the symbiote is the focal point and jumps from host to host then it would be some lame a$$ horror movie.

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  • Happy symbiote, he chirruped merrily while his many-faceted eyes, revolving independently of each other, looked one at the Sluggos and the other at Eddie. —  Thrilling Wonder Stories April, 1953
  • For once I'm grateful I need the symbiote: if I ignore its whispers, her face is just a blank mask to me. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • The symbiote is not infallible, and there are times when I dread saying the wrong thing, just by accident. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • I would like to be a symbiote, but I am a parasite. —  F ;SF - vol 086 issue 01 - January 1994
  • The symbiote was diverting most of it to the healing, bringing him back to fighting capacity as quickly as possible. —  Storm Watcher Galley
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  1. French, from Greek sumbiōtēs, companion, from sumbioun, to live together; see symbiosis.
 

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