Garden Dictionary Word: dependence

dependence

An association between organisms in which the dependent one receives benefits but gives no benefit to the other, characteristic of such plants as mistletoe, Phoradendron, living on an oak, Quercus; not reciprocal. See also: symbiosis, competition, coaction, parasite.

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