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Definition: Commensal |
CommensalAdjective1. (biology) living in a state of commensalism. Noun1. Either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | An insect that lives and feeds with, but not upon, another insect, either on(mainly)surplus food or on nutrients that the other cannot utilise. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | 1. living on or within another organism, and deriving benefit without injuring or benefiting the other individual. 2. an organism living on or within another, but not causing injury to the host. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Commensal |
| English words defined with "commensal": commensally ♦ family Spirochaetaceae ♦ hermit crab ♦ Oyster crab ♦ Pea crab ♦ Spirochaetaceae. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "commensal": Actinobacillus ♦ Enterobacter cloacae ♦ Prevotella intermedia. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Commensal" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (commensal). |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The combination of false assurance of its eradication, and the failure of public health vigilance, sets the stage for the panic that may ensue when enzootic plague spills over from its natural cycle into the peridomestic and commensal rodent populations (and their fleas), bringing plague into closer human contact. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Commensal" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Commensal" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
commensal | 9 |
commensal le | 7 |
commensal restaurant | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "commensal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ai që rri ulur bashkë në tryezë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сътрапезник (messmate), паразит (hanger-on, parasite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spoleèný (combined, common, communal, conjoint, United). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kommensal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | commensaal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kommensaalinen, kommensaali. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | commensal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | symbiotisch (symbiotic), Kommensale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμβιών οργανισμός, ομοτράπεζος,συνδαιτημών. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | asztaltársi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | commensale (diner, table companion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ommensalcay comensal (messmate). (various references) comesean (messmate). (various references) сотрапезник (dinner companion), комменсал. (various references) osoba za istim stolom. (various references) comensal (diner). (various references) kommensal. (various references) ortakçı hayvan, komensal hayvan, aynı sofrada yemek yiyen kimse. (various references) співтрапезник (messmate). (various references) cây hội sinh, người ăn cùng mâm, người ăn cùng b n, ăn cùng mâm, ăn cùng b n. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "commensal": commensalism, commensalisms, commensally, commensals. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-m-m-n-o-s" | |
-2 letters: almsmen. | |
-3 letters: amoles, anoles, camels, cameos, canoes, celoms, cleans, clones, commas, lances, lanose, lemans, lemmas, lemons, macles, macons, mascon, melons, mensal, mescal, oceans, salmon, socman, socmen, solace, solemn. | |
-4 letters: acmes, acnes, aeons, alecs, almes, aloes, alone, amens, ammos, amole, anole, calms, calos, camel, cameo, cames, canes, canoe, canso, celom, clams, clans, clean, clone. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-m-m-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: commensals. | |
+2 letters: commensally, commonweals. | |
+3 letters: commensalism, commonalties, commonplaces, communalizes, consummately. | |
+4 letters: ceremonialism, commensalisms, commensurable, commensurably, commonalities, commonwealths, communalities, megalomaniacs. | |
+5 letters: accomplishment, ceremonialisms, commensurately, commonsensical, microfilaments, noncommercials, nonsymmetrical. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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