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Meaning of "trophobiotic" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF TROPHOBIOTIC

ˌtrɒfəʊˌbaɪˈɒtɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TROPHOBIOTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Trophobiotic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TROPHOBIOTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Trophobiosis

Trophobiosis is a symbiotic association between organisms where food is obtained or provided. The provider of food in the association is referred to as a trophobiont. The name is derived from the Greek trophē meaning "nourishment" and -biosis which is short for the English symbiosis. Among the more noted trophobiotic groups are ants and members of a number of hemipteran families. A number of ant genera are recorded as tending groups of hemipterans to varying degrees. In most cases the ants collect and transport the "honeydew" secretions from the hemipterans back to the nest for consumption. Not all examples of ant trophobiotic interactions are mutualistic, with instances such as ants attracted to Cacopsylla pyricola feeding on both the honeydew and the C. pyricola individuals. This interaction has been recorded in ancient Chinese writings and is noted as one of the oldest instances of biological pest control. In mutualistic relationships, the production of honeydew by trophobionts is rewarded by removal of dead hemipterans and protection from a variety of predators by the attendant ants.

Definition of trophobiotic in the English dictionary

The definition of trophobiotic in the dictionary is involving, belonging or relating to trophobiosis.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TROPHOBIOTIC

abiotic · aerobiotic · antibiotic · biotic · endosymbiotic · epibiotic · gnotobiotic · halobiotic · macrobiotic · meiotic · miotic · myotic · necrobiotic · parabiotic · prebiotic · premeiotic · probiotic · saprobiotic · symbiotic · xenobiotic

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TROPHOBIOTIC

trophesial · trophesy · trophi · trophic · trophically · trophies · trophobioses · trophobiosis · trophoblast · trophoblastic · trophology · trophoneuroses · trophoneurosis · trophoplasm · trophotactic · trophotaxes · trophotaxis · trophotropic · trophotropism · trophozoite

WORDS THAT END LIKE TROPHOBIOTIC

amniotic · amphibiotic · anabiotic · anaerobiotic · anamniotic · compatriotic · erotic · idiotic · nonantibiotic · parasymbiotic · patriotic · periotic · pneumoconiotic · scoliotic · semeiotic · semiotic · superpatriotic · ultrapatriotic · unpatriotic · zoobiotic

Synonyms and antonyms of trophobiotic in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «trophobiotic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TROPHOBIOTIC

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The translations of trophobiotic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «trophobiotic» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

trophobiotic
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

trofobióticas
570 millions of speakers
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trophobiotic
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trophobiotic
380 millions of speakers
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trophobiotic
280 millions of speakers
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trophobiotic
278 millions of speakers
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exatamente trofobiótico
270 millions of speakers
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trophobiotic
260 millions of speakers
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trophobiotic
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Trophobiotic
190 millions of speakers
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trophobiotic
180 millions of speakers
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trophobiotic
130 millions of speakers
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trophobiotic
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Trophobiotic
85 millions of speakers
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trophobiotic
80 millions of speakers
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trophobiotic
75 millions of speakers
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ट्रॉफोबायोटिक
75 millions of speakers
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trophobiotic
70 millions of speakers
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trophobiotic
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trophobiotic
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trophobiotic
40 millions of speakers
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trophobiotic
30 millions of speakers
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trophobiotic
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trophobiotic
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trophobiotic
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trophobiotic
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Trends of use of trophobiotic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TROPHOBIOTIC»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TROPHOBIOTIC»

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Herdsmen ants and their mealybug partners
The tendency of an increasing loss of wax production correlated with an increasing degree of phyletic adaptations to a trophobiotic life style is also reported from other hemipterans. For instance it was described by Zwolfer (1958b ) in root ...
Martin Dill, Douglas John Williams, Ulrich Maschwitz, 2002
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Issues in Life Sciences—Acarology, Arachnology, and ...
with a discussion of trophobiotic associations with Acropyga Roger ants “The mealybug tribe Xenococcini (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) comprises three genera, Eumyrmococcus Silvestri, Neochavesia Williams & Granara de Willink and ...
‎2013
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Tropical Biodiversity and Systematics: Proceedings of the ...
In the case of truly trophobiotic homopterans, this excretion is not dropped onto the vegetation or embedded in waxy material, but is offered to tending ants after tactile stimulation. Trophobiosis is most common among the Sternorrhyncha (e.g.  ...
Hans Ulrich, 1997
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Tijdschrift voor entomologie
It is unlikely that T. vacca would, in all cases, be attended specifically by the Technomyrmex species, as such trophobiotic relationships are extremely rare in Hemiptera, compared with other organisms (Holl- dobler & Wilson 1990). As with our ...
‎2004
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Aphid reprints: Leonard collection
As regards their trophobiotic relationships with ants, the aphids concerned can be separated into three groups: The myrmecoxenous root aphids are not or only rarely visited, they have no trophobiotic organ and usually have a copious wax ...
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Entomologia Generalis
In some Neotropical aphids trophobiotic associations with Meliponiinae bees also occur [Schmutterer 1978]. Often such trophobiotic aphids have reduced their own defensive properties [Nault et al 1976]. In addition, the ants are important for  ...
‎1990
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Systematic, evolutionary, and ecological implications of ...
Viewing now back on the Lycaenidae as a whole, it becomes apparent that trophobiotic caterpillar-ant interactions are restricted to the subfamily Lycaeninae, due to the possession of the DNO as a keystone synapomorphy. However, within  ...
Konrad Fiedler, 1991
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European Journal of Entomology
Trophobiotic relationships Among the Fulgoromorpha, ant-mutualisms are only documented in a few species of Cixiidae (Myers, 1929; Thompson, 1984), Delphacidae (Dejean et al., 1996, 1997a, 2000a), Hypochthonellidae (China & Fennah, ...
‎2004
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A Selected Bibliography of the Coccoidea
18 : 637-677, illus. Alecanium n. gen.; 12 new species; notes on 7 other coccids. 1921a red date-palm scale, phoenicococcus marlatti: a technical description. Jour. Agr. Res. 21 : 669-676, illus. 1922 ON SOME TROPHOBIOTIC COCCIDAE  ...
Harold Morrison, Alice Veronica Renk, 1957
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Advances in the Systematics of Fossil and Modern Insects: ...
In: CIS Symposium on Hymenoptera, Moscow, September 24—26, 2006: Program and Abstracts. Moscow State University, Moscow, 74 [total pages 98 pp.] [In Russian]. Biryukova OB, Rasnitsyn AP, Novgorodova TA (2006) On trophobiotic ...
Dmitry Shcherbakov, Michael Engel, Michael Sharkey, 2011

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TROPHOBIOTIC»

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Ants farm root aphid clones in subterranean rooms
In turn these species of aphids have developed distinctive traits never found in free living species such as the 'trophobiotic organ' to hold honey dew for the ants. «Phys.Org, Jul 12»
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