See Also: metabiosis(medicine)
metabiosis(dictionary)

metabiosis (iou)



metabiosis noun. L19.
[from METABOLIC after symbiosis, symbiotic.]
Biology. A form of ecological dependence in which one organism must modify the environment before the second is able to live in it.
metabiotic adjective of, pertaining to, or of the nature of metabiosis L19.