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Definition of: symbiont
(sim′bī·ont, -bē-) noun Biol.
An organism living in a state of symbiosis. Also sym′·bi·on. [<Gk. symbioōn, -ontos, ppr. of bioein. See SYMBIOSIS.]
—sym′bi·on′tic adjective
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