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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1210/
- Published: 2023-05-23T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-03-27T18:52:16.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

The word for today is…

symbiosis (noun):

1: the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism)  
2: a cooperative relationship (as between two persons or groups)

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/symbiosis?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Symbiosis was adopted by the scientific community in the late 1800s, coming ultimately (via German) from the Greek symbí?sis, meaning “living together, companionship.” Of course, there are a lot of ways to live together and, accordingly, several flavors of symbiosis. When a biological symbiosis between two organisms is mutually beneficial, it is termed mutualism. For example, oxpeckers are birds so named because they “peck” ticks off of infested cattle and wild mammals, a likely satisfying arrangement for both parties, and textbook mutualism. When one organism lives off another at the other’s expense, however, it’s called parasitism.

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