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metabiosis Biol.|mɛtəbaɪˈəʊsɪs|
[f. meta- + Gr. βίωσις mode of life, but formed as back-formation from the adj.]
A type of symbiosis in which one of the organisms modifies the environment before the second is able to live in it. So metabiˈotic a. [ad. G. metabiotisch (C. Garré 1887, in Correspondenz-Blatt für Schweizer Aerzte 1 July 390).]
1899Knowledge July 151/2 It [sc. the yeast organism] is dependent upon its predecessor for its particular action—that is to say, we have here a condition of metabiosis. Ibid. 152/1 This implies nothing more or less than metabiotic relationships between the different kinds of the bacteria concerned. 1966F. H. Meyer in S. M. Henry Symbiosis I. iv. 172 The nitrite bacteria are dependent on ammonia-producing organisms, while the nitrate bacteria are again dependent on the activity of the nitrite bacteria. For such direct living ‘one after another’, Garré gave [sic] the name metabiosis. |