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  • adjective Not symbiotic.

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  • adjective not parasitic on another organism

Etymologies

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non- +‎ symbiotic

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  • A literature review, drawing attention to the lack of knowledge about the reasons why nonsymbiotic nitrogen fixation occurs in the mycorrhizosphere of some plants but not others.

    Chapter 13 1984

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