photobiont

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English

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Etymology

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From photo- +‎ -biont.

Noun

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photobiont (plural photobionts)

  1. A photosynthetic symbiont, especially those in symbiosis with fungi in lichen.
    Hypernym: symbiont
    Hyponyms: phycobiont (plants), cyanobiont (cyanobacteria)
    Coordinate term: mycobiont
    • 2022, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, Microbial Symbionts, page 811:
      It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species.