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commensal

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9 lettersPronunciation /kəˈmɛnsəl/Part of speech noun, adjectiveSorted acelmmnosStarts with CEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent

Word origin

From Middle English commensal, from Old French commensal, from Medieval Latin commensālis, from com- + mensa (“table”) + -ālis.

Used in a sentence

  • The fish (AMPHIPRION PERCULA) "intel-intel" of the blacks, is said to be commensal (literally, dining at the same table with its host), as distinguished from the parasite, which lives on its host.
  • Colville ordered it, and was sorry when the last of his commensals, slightly bowing him a good-night, left him alone to it.
  • Around this tragic central figure are grouped the commensals of the Vauquer pension, Rastignac, the young law-student, with shallow purse and aristocratic connections; […].

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