antibiosis

1. 1.

   an association between organisms that is harmful to one of them or between organisms and a metabolic product of another

   Broaderassociation

Other forms of antibiosis

plural

antibiosises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about antibiosis

What does antibiosis mean?

antibiosis means "an association between organisms that is harmful to one of them or between organisms and a metabolic product of another".

How many syllables are in antibiosis?

antibiosis has 5 syllables and divides as an-ti-bi-o-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.