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Meaning of hyperphoresy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The situation of one organism carrying another organism, which is itself carrying a third organism, due to phoresy.

uncountable

Examples

“2011, L. T. Sabagh, R. J. P. Dias, C. W. Branco, C. F. D. Rocha, New records of phoresy and hyperphoresy among treefrogs, ostracods, and ciliates in bromeliad of Atlantic forest, in Biodivers. Conserv. 20, 1837–1841”

“Hyperphoresy, when one organism is being transported by another that is also in the process of being transported, is extremely rare in the fossil record but does occur (Fig. 203).”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

hyperphoria hyperphoric hyperphosphatasemia hyperphosphatemia hyperphosphaturia hyperphosphoremia