xenobiosis

English

Etymology

xeno- +‎ -biosis

Noun

xenobiosis (uncountable)

  1. (biology) A form of symbiosis where one species of ant lives with another and the two species raise their young separately.
    • 1904, Bulletin of the University of Texas: Scientific series
      Although this explanation is readily suggested by the well-known cases of dulosis and xenobiosis in ants, we are, nevertheless, bound to reject it for the following reasons […]
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