consortism (konsortizm)

-ism.] In biol., the vital a ociation or union for life of two or more different organisms, as a plant and an animal, each being dependent upon the other in its physiological activities; symbiosis. Consortism is a kind of consort i on or fellowship more intimate and nece ary than that of commensals or inquilines, and differs from parasitism in that each organism needs the other for its well-being. See symbiosis. The fungi which are concerned in the constitution of lichens maintain with the algal components throughout life relations of consortism . Encyc. Brit ., XVIII. 266. consortium (kon-sor's hi-um), n. [L. consortium, fellowship: see consort2 .] Fellowship; a ociation; union; coalition. a general view, = It. cons pet to, look, appearance, Trans, Amer. Philol . As8., XV. 126. There is no book extant in any language which gives a conspectus of all those well-marked and widely-varying literary forms which have differentiated themselves in the course of time. S. Lanier, The English Novel, p. 2. =Syn. 2. Compendium , Compend , etc. See abridgment . con sperse (kon-spèrs'), a . [L. conspersus , pp. of cons per gere , sprinkle, com- , together, + spargere , sprinkle: see sparse , and cf. asperse , disperse .] Sprinkled rse .] Sprinkled; spotted. Specifically, in entom.: (a) Thickly and irregularly strewn, so as to be crowded in some places and scattered in others: as, con sperse dots or punctures. (b) Thickly and irregularly sprinkled with minute colored dots: said of a surface.