An organism that shares a common ecological niche or feeding strategy with other organisms, especially in colonial or symbiotic relationships.
From Greek koinos (common) + tropos (nourishment/turning toward), describing organisms with shared ecological roles or feeding habits.
In a coral reef, all the polyps are coenotropes to each other—they share the same feeding style and ecological role, which is why colonies can work together as one super-organism.
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