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amensal en · ADJ

Etymology

From a- + mensal, from Latin mensa (“table, food”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Relating to amensalism.
    • Descriptions of the plight of sea turtles in the modern world focus principally on sea turtle–human associations that are either predator and prey or amensal (where one associate is harmed and the other receives no effect). 2002, Peter L. Lutz, The Biology of Sea Turtles, volume 2, page 356: