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An organism living in in more or less intimate association or even close union of two dissimilar organisms ; usually : the smaller member of a symbiotic pair of dissimilar size as opposed to the larger host.

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  • She then finds herself what is termed a symbiont, which is one who provides a regular blood source to the vampires known as Ina.
  • She glanced down at the unmoving symbiont below them.
  • "It's the same symbiont she has inside her right now!"
  • "One of us has to take the symbiont into the alien core."
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