Usually means: Exchange of food among insects.
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  4. trophallaxis: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. trophallaxis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  10. trophallaxis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Definitions from Wiktionary (trophallaxis)

▸ noun:  (biology) The mutual exchange of (fluid) food between individuals, especially in social insects.

Similar:
trophobiosis, trophophoresy, trophism, trophic transfer, syntrophy, trophobiont, trophodynamics, trophicity, mutualism, reciprocal altruism, more...

Opposite:
atrophallaxis, allotriophagy, allotrophy

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Similar:
trophobiosis, trophophoresy, trophism, trophic transfer, syntrophy, trophobiont, trophodynamics, trophicity, mutualism, reciprocal altruism, more...

Opposite:
atrophallaxis, allotriophagy, allotrophy



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