photobiont

English

Etymology

From photo- +‎ -biont.

Noun

photobiont (plural photobionts)

1. 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.