the living together of two dissimilar organisms; the relationship may be beneficial to both (mutualism and symbiosis), beneficial to one without effect on the other (commensalism), beneficial to one and detrimental to the other (parasitism), detrimental to the first without any effect on the other (amensalism), or detrimental to both (synnecrosis).
Delhi Sultanate. refers to the various Muslim dynasties that ruled in India (1210â1526). It was founded after Muhammad of Ghor Muhammad of Ghor,d. 1206, Afghan conqueror of N India. A brother of the sultan of Ghor, he was made governor of Ghazni in 1173 and from there launched a series of invasions of India. By 1186 he had conquered the Muslim principalities in the Punjab...... Click the link for more information.
Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: sultan (Noun). Originally, a secular office, formally subordinate to -, but de facto the power behind the throne of the (theoretically universal) caliph. hereditary ruler in various Muslim states (sultanate), varying from petty principalities (as in Indonesia and in Yemen), often vassal of a greater ruler, to independent realms, such as Oman, Brunei, or an empire such as the Turkish Ottoman Empire.