Home › Words › P › photosymbiosisphotosymbiosisphotosymbiosis · noun — symbiosis in which one of the participants is capable of photosynthesis.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, photosymbiosis ranks #1,212 of 42,831 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom photo- + symbiosis.nounsymbiosis in which one of the participants is capable of photosynthesise.g.“To prove that P . calcariformata establishes a permanent photosymbiosis with algae we characterized its photosynthetic activity by Pulse Amplitude Modulated (PAM) fluorometry.” — 2015 August 13, Christiane Schmidt et al., “Recent Invasion of the Symbiont-Bearing Foraminifera Pararotalia into the Eastern Mediterranean Facilitated by the Ongoing Warming Trend”, in PLoS ONE, voluDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.photosymbiont 79% match — An organism in a photosymbiotic relationship vs photosymbiosis →phytosymbiont 67% match — A symbiont that is a plant vs photosymbiosis →photobiont 66% match — A photosynthetic symbiont, especially those in symbiosis with fungi in lichen. vs photosymbiosis →symbiotism 64% match — symbiosis vs photosymbiosis →symbiodeme 64% match — A lichen fungus that is a photobiont vs photosymbiosis →symbiont 61% match — An organism that lives in a symbiotic relationship. vs photosymbiosis →cyanobiont 60% match — A cyanobacterium that lives in symbiosis a eukaryote; a cyanobacterial photobiont. vs photosymbiosis →ectosymbiosis 60% match — A form of symbiosis in which a partner (the ectosymbiont) remains on the surface of its host vs photosymbiosis →