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English
Etymology
From photo- + -biont.
Noun
photobiont (plural photobionts)
- A photosynthetic symbiont, especially those in symbiosis with fungi in lichen.
- Hypernym: symbiont
- Hyponyms: phycobiont (plants), cyanobiont (cyanobacteria)
- Coordinate term: mycobiont
2022, Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai, Microbial Symbionts, page 811:It has micobiont from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota belonging to kingdom Fungi and photobiont from Trebouxia species.