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- noun an
organism in apartnership with another such that eachprofits from their being together; asymbiont
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Piece of the symbiote is left with conners, he continues studying it, and using it’s unique properties devices his serum to regrow his arm.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Attn: Nerdtacular Attendees! 2007
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If they do some BS where the symbiote is the focal point and jumps from host to host then it would be some lame a$$ horror movie.
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There you have it: the symbiote is the only living creature in the universe that can't be zombified.
4thletter! 2009
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(infamous?) black "symbiote" costume, which raises questions about which "universe" it represents in the game.
Joystiq 2010
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Assignment complete, awaiting reinsertion into next available symbiote body.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Assignment: Test Weapon #99,425 on symbiote body with observer.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Further trouble brews when it turns out that a doppel whose halves speak slightly out of phase can act as a drug for the Hosts—addictive, destructive, eventually cataclysmic for the whole Host civilization and its human symbiote.
Impossible Cities Tom Shippey 2011
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Description: While conducting an archaeological dig on planet P3X-888, Dr. Daniel Jackson makes a remarkable discovery: a primordial Goa'uld symbiote, an ancient, predatory version of SG-1's parasitical enemies.
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It's a race to turn a relatively benign symbiote (the original Napster, which offered to pay for its downloads if it could get a license) into vicious, antibiotic resistant bacteria that's dedicated to their destruction.
Boing Boing 2009
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Method: Human symbiote body shackled to a concrete wall with uninterrupted exposure.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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