0 relating to fighting or aggression (= spoken or physical behaviour that is threatening or involves harm to someone or something): --
He published a study of agonistic behaviour in freshwater crayfish.
1 relating to an agonist (= a muscle that is pulled in the opposite direction by another muscle): --
agonistic muscles
These are arousal, agonistic, and prosocial primes.
Following the agonistic theory of politics, we have selected the moments when the participants hesitated to take the risk of explicitly disagreeing - about ideas, interests or values - with their interlocutors.
Agonistic behavior is also exhibited by territorial species as a means of defending one or more of these resources from neighboring territory holders or other intruders.
All such interactions that were observed were recorded, but we focused on possible agonistic interactions among bees at baits.
The conditioned agonistic behavior was robust and slow to extinguish.
Sibling violence and agonistic interactions experienced by early adolescents.
They must balance on two legs to engage in this speciesspecific agonistic pattern.
The number of flowers visited in each plant, duration and number of plants visited per bout, and agonistic behaviour were recorded.
