Crossword-Solution: COMMENSAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Commensal | n. | One who eats at the same table. |
| Commensal | n. | An animal, not truly parasitic, which lives in, with, or on, another, partaking usually of the same food. Both species may be benefited by the association. |
| Commensal | a. | Having the character of a commensal. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “COMMENSAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ANIMAL living in or upon another and sharing its food | 1 answer |
| EATING at same table | 1 answer |
| PLANT living in or upon another and sharing its food | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COMMENSAL (5)
Last year an elevator stuck in the shaft with half the company in it, and this year a highway robbery, its daring punishment and its reckless repetition—what the newspapers will call “A Triple Mystery” when it gets to them—and both victims among our commensals! Really, I don’t know what more we could ask of you, unless it were the foot-padded footpad himself as a commensal.
The fish (AMPHIPRION PERCULA) "intel-intel" of the blacks, is said to be commensal (literally, dining at the same table with its host), as distinguished from the parasite, which lives on its host.
With infinite precautions, for fear of blurring the dream, we were able to find what we wanted to find--namely, that we were the great-great-grandchildren and only possible living descendants of Gatienne, the fair glassmaker and composer of "Le Chant du Triste Commensal." Thus runs the descent-- Jean Aubéry, Seigneur du Brail, married Anne Busson.
Since the tie between the members of the subcaste was participation in a sacrificial meal of grain cooked with water, and as this food was held to be sacred, the members of the subcaste came to refuse to eat it except with those who could join in the communal feast; and as the idea gradually gained acceptance, that a legitimate child must be the offspring of a father and mother both belonging to the commensal group, the practice of endogamy within the subcaste became a rule.
Since all the citizens of the Roman State participated in a common sacrifice, they might be considered as a single caste, or even a subcaste or commensal group.