copreservation

English

Etymology

co- +‎ preservation

Noun

copreservation (uncountable)

  1. 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, […]
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