inquilinous
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
inquilinous (not comparable)
- (biology) That lives in the dwelling place of another species
- 2015 December 1, “Macrofaunal Patterns in and around du Couedic and Bonney Submarine Canyons, South Australia”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Sponges influence macrofaunal community composition by providing habitat for inquilines (e.g., among the inquilinous amphipods, a diversity of sebids, stenothoids, thaumatelsonids, colomastigids and leucothoids were found with the sponges).