consociation

consociation
/keuhn soh'see ay"sheuhn, -shee-/, n.
1. the act of uniting in association.
2. an association of churches or religious orders.
3. Ecol. a climax community in which a single species is dominant.
[1585-95; < L consociation-, s. of consociatio an associating; see CONSOCIATE, -ION]

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