Category: -biont

bi·ont  (b???nt?)n. An individual organism, especially a symbiont.[From -biont or back-formation from halobiont, symbiont, etc.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.biont (?ba??nt) n (Biology) a living thingCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

-biontsuff. Living organism; mode of living: halobiont.[bi(o)- + -ont.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.-biont , a combining form meaning ?an organism? or ?a part of an organism? that takes the form or lives in the environment specified by the initial element: phycobiont. [