She then finds herself what is termed a symbiont, which is one who provides a regular blood source to the vampires known as Ina.    From Wordnik.com.  [“Fledgling” by Octavia E. Butler (Seven Stories Press, 2005) « The BookBanter Blog] Reference

She glanced down at the unmoving symbiont below them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

"It's the same symbiont she has inside her right now!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

"One of us has to take the symbiont into the alien core.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

"And what does it have to do with this other Trill symbiont?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

I lived with the symbiont for a long time after the others died.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

Reviving the symbiont took longer than replicating the nutrient bath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

"Unless this isLieutenant, are you saying this Trill symbiont is you?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

"Then why hasn't the old Dax symbiont disappeared?" he demanded tightly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

There was no way an unjoined symbiont could perceive actual visual stimuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

"Julian would never have agreed to send the symbiont into danger otherwise".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

The tank abruptly filled with a glittering wash of brine and squirming symbiont.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

"Which means the ancient symbiont knows something about this mess that we don't.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

It is unclear who is the host and who is the symbiont in the US/Israeli relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middle East Politics Divides Progressives] Reference

"Even if that means leaving the symbiont you already saved alone on Deep Space Nine?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

Her twinned symbiont had just been linked into the alien neural core on that station.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

Although the thought of holding the orphaned symbiont in his hands made his throat hurt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

Without their Frankia symbiont, casuarinas are often disappointing when planted as exotics.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. Introduction] Reference

Dax reached out to accept the symbiont as gently as a mother would receive her newborn child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

"I'm not sure Julian can get the symbiont unloaded that fast," she told Sisko in a quiet voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

Rheba watched, but could not be certain whether the animal was pet, symbiont, partner or superior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Dancer]

Preserving the symbiont must have been something you knew for a fact that I wantedthat Dax wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

The Dax symbiont might have accepted that explanation, but Jadzia knew the young human doctor too well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

As a Trill, there's only one thing that's important to me right now, and that's keeping my symbiont alive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

"It might have been some kind of aftereffect from my merger with the other symbiont back at Starbase One.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

He took a deep breath that still somehow felt not quite deep enough, and lifted the symbiont from the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

"Rehk'resen," she murmured, only vaguely aware of her own real voice above the fitful clamor around the symbiont.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

Benjamin, some kind of genetically altered creature is in the infirmary, attacking Julian and the symbiont right now!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

"My science officer, Jadzia Dax, is the Trill whose symbiont survived all this time in the Defiant," he said quietly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

T'Kreng thinks I'm running the tissue reconstruction and cloning experiments Admiral Hayman ordered for the symbiont.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

"And in a true joining, Jadzia wouldn't retain any of the symbiont's memories, anyway, once the symbiont was removed.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

Although she managed to keep her tone as level as always, somewhere inside Dax a tendril of doubt curled from symbiont to host.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

Inoculation with an effective strain of a Bradyrhizobium root symbiont may promote uniform seedling growth, but is not essential.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 48] Reference

He'd dropped the stasis field on the symbiont, feeling safe with it for the first time since Hayman showed it to them on Starbase 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

Something lifted the symbiont in a harsh metallic grip, something turned and twisted it, nearly breaking its fragile cortical envelope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

"We can bring the old symbiont with usmaybe even manage to wake it up enough to help us avoid getting caught in the time rift this time.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]

She could still see the red gleam of its readouts beneath the icebrand-new sensors that were now far older than her own internal symbiont.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time's Enemy]