Usually means: Transport of one organism by another.
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  1. phoresy: Merriam-Webster
  2. phoresy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. phoresy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. phoresy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. phoresy: Wiktionary
  6. phoresy: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. phoresy: Dictionary.com
  8. Phoresy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. phoresy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (phoresy)

▸ noun:  (zoology) An association between two organisms in which one (e.g. a mite) travels on the body of another, without being a parasite.

Similar:
phoront, phytozoon, zoophily, phoronid, phytozoan, symphily, symphile, myrmecophytism, zoochory, entophyte, more...

Opposite:
apophoresis, aphoresis, dissemination

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Similar:
phoront, phytozoon, zoophily, phoronid, phytozoan, symphily, symphile, myrmecophytism, zoochory, entophyte, more...

Opposite:
apophoresis, aphoresis, dissemination



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