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Definition of: phoresy
(fôr′ə·sē, for′-) noun Biol.
An interrelationship between small and large organisms by which the smaller, by attachment to the bodies of the larger, are transported or dispersed, as mites on the bodies of certain insects. [<Gk. phorēsis. See PHORESIS.]
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