Usually means: Organisms living together, benefiting one.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. commensals: Merriam-Webster
  2. commensals: Collins English Dictionary
  3. commensals: Vocabulary.com
  4. commensals: Wordnik
  5. commensals: Wiktionary
  6. commensals: Dictionary.com
  7. Commensals: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. commensals: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commensals: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. commensals: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. GI Disorders (No longer online)
  3. commensals: Medical dictionary

(Note: See commensal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (commensal)

adjective:  (ecology) Of a form of symbiosis in which one organism derives a benefit while the other is unaffected.
adjective:  Eating at the same table.
noun:  (ecology) An organism partaking in a commensal relationship.
noun:  One who eats at the same table.
▸ Also see commensal


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