copreservation
English edit
Etymology edit
co- + preservation
Noun edit
copreservation (uncountable)
- The joint preservation of two or more organisms.
- 2020, Geoff Williams, The Invertebrate World of Australia's Subtropical Rainforests, page 129:
- However, Phthiraptera are almost absent from the fossil record, a possible peculiarity of the difficulty of host-parasite copreservation, […]