The living together in more or less imitative association or even close union of two dissimilar organisms. In a broad sense the term includes parasitism, or antagonistic symbiosis or antipathetic symbiosis, in which the association is disadvantageous or destructive to one of the organisms, but ordinarily it is used of cases where the association is advantageous, or often necessary, to one or both, and not harmful to either. When there is bodily union (in extreme cases so close that the two form practically a single body, as in the union of algae and fungi to form lichens, and in the inclusion of algae in radiolarians) it is called conjunctive symbiosis; if there is no actual union of the organisms (as in the association of ants with myrmecophytes), disjunctive symbiosis.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, or living in, a state of symbiosis.

To symbolize.

See Symbolics.

Of or pertaining to a symbol or symbols; of the nature of a symbol; exhibiting or expressing by resemblance or signs; representative; as, the figure of an eye is symbolic of sight and knowledge.

The study of ancient symbols that branch of historic theology which treats of creeds and confessions of faith; symbolism; -- called also symbolic.

The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms.

One who employs symbols.

Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.

The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation.

To make to agree in properties or qualities.

One who symbolizes.

Pertaining to a symbology; versed in, or characterized by, symbology.

One who practices, or who is versed in, symbology.

The art of expressing by symbols.

An order of slender eel-like fishes having the gill openings confluent beneath the neck. The pectoral arch is generally attached to the skull, and the entire margin of the upper jaw is formed by the premaxillary. Called also Symbranchia.

Commensurable; symmetrical.

One eminently studious of symmetry of parts.

Symmetrical.

Involving or exhibiting symmetry; proportional in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building.

Same as Symmetrian.

One eminently studious of symmetry of parts.

To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.

A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; the union and conformity of the members of a work to the whole.

Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.

Sympathetic.

In a sympathetic manner.

One who sympathizes; a sympathizer.

To experience together.

One who sympathizes.

Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.

Having the petals united; gamopetalous.

Symphonious.

Agreeing in sound; accordant; harmonious.

A composer of symphonies.

To agree; to be in harmony.

A consonance or harmony of sounds, agreeable to the ear, whether the sounds are vocal or instrumental, or both.

An order of small apterous insects having an elongated body, with three pairs of thoracic and about nine pairs of abdominal legs. They are, in many respects, intermediate between myriapods and true insects.

Of or pertaining to to symphysis.

The operation of dividing the symphysis pubis for the purpose of facilitating labor; -- formerly called the Sigualtian section.

An articulation formed by intervening cartilage; as, the pubic symphysis. The union or coalescence of bones; also, the place of union or coalescence; as, the symphysis of the lower jaw. Cf. Articulation.

Symphyseotomy.

Coalescence; a growing into one with another word.

A sensitive kind of barometer, in which the pressure of the atmosphere, acting upon a liquid, as oil, in the lower portion of the instrument, compresses an elastic gas in the upper part.

Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium. The symplectic bone.

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth.

A sympodium.

Composed of superposed branches in such a way as to imitate a simple axis; as, a sympodial stem.

An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.

A conference or conversation of philosophers at a banquet; hence, any similar gathering.

The master of a feast.

One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking.

A drinking together; a symposium.

A drinking together; a merry feast.

Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited.

Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else.

The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.

Same as Synanthesis.

Of or pertaining to a synagogue.

A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance of religious rites.

Imposing reciprocal obligations upon the parties; as, a synallagmatic contract.

Having the outer and middle toes partially united; -- said of certain birds related to the creepers.

Same as Synalepha.

The divided part beyond the pylangium in the aortic trunk of the amphibian heart.

Having the stamens united by their anthers; as, synantherous flowers.

The simultaneous maturity of the anthers and stigmas of a blossom.

Having flowers and leaves which appear at the same time; -- said of certain plants.

A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, found in the tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), in the dahlia, and other Compositae.

A genus of slender, transparent holothurians which have delicate calcareous anchors attached to the dermal plates. See Illustration in Appendix.

A ferment resembling diastase, found in bitter almonds. Cf. Amygdalin, and Emulsin.

One of numerous calcareous processes which extend between, and unite, the adjacent septa of certain corals, especially of the fungian corals.

Joint rule or sovereignty.

A fastening or knitting together; the state of being closely jointed; close union.

Synarthrosis.

Immovable articulation by close union, as in sutures. It sometimes includes symphysial articulations also. See the Note under Articulation, n., 1.

Concurrence of starry position or influence; hence, similarity of condition, fortune, etc., as prefigured by astrological calculation.

A congregation; also, formerly, the Lord's Supper.

A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry.

Same as Syncarp.

Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.

Not capable of being used as a term by itself; -- said of words, as an adverb or preposition.

An immovable articulation in which the union is formed by cartilage.

Symphyseotomy.

A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater force.

A synchronal thing or event.

Happening at the same time; synchronous.

The concurrence of events in time; simultaneousness.

Of or pertaining to synchronism; arranged according to correspondence in time; as, synchronistic tables.

The act of synchronizing; concurrence of events in respect to time.

To assign to the same date or period of time; as, to synchronize two events of Greek and Roman history.

Contemporaneous chronology.

Happening at the same time; simultaneous.

The concurrence of events in time; synchronism.

A derangement or confusion of any kind, as of words in a sentence, or of humors in the eye.

Curved toward the same side in all directions; -- said of surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of a sphere; -- opposed to anticlastic.

A synclinal fold.

A synclinal fold.

Synclinal.

A mountain range owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning.

Of or pertaining to syncope; resembling syncope.

To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, /Gloster/ is a syncopated form of /Gloucester./

The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.

An elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every.

One who syncopates.

To syncopate.

Having united cotyledonous.

Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion.

Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other.

One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance; an adherent of George Calixtus and other Germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the Protestant sects with each other and with the Roman Catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the Lutheran church.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols.

A figure of speech in which opposite things or persons are compared.

Tissue in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wanting and the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of a continuous mass of protoplasm in which nuclei are imbedded, as in ordinary striped muscle.

Any bird having syndactilous feet.

Having two or more digits wholly or partly united. See Syndactylism.

Syndactilous.

Having the toes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web, as the kingfishers; gressorial.

A description of the ligaments; syndesmology.

That part of anatomy which treats of ligaments.

An articulation formed by means of ligaments.

Connecting; conjunctive; as, syndetic words or connectives; syndetic references in a dictionary.