Meaning of commensal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of a form of symbiosis in which one organism derives a benefit while the other is unaffected.
   not-comparable
2. Eating at the same table.
   not-comparable

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Examples

“The fish (AMPHIPRION PERCULA) "intel-intel" of the blacks, is said to be commensal (literally, dining at the same table with its host), as distinguished from the parasite, which lives on its host.”

“With this there is also associated the grazing or herding over wider or more restricted areas, belonging either collectively or discretely to the community, of sheep, cattle, goats, or swine, and almost always the domestic fowl is commensal with man in this life.”

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