Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The science of life and of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution. It includes botany and zoology and all their subdivisions.
- n. The life processes or characteristic phenomena of a group or category of living organisms: the biology of viruses.
- n. The plant and animal life of a specific area or region.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of life and living things in the widest sense; the body of doctrine respecting living beings; the knowledge of vital phenomena.
- n. In a more special sense, physiology; biophysiology; biotics.
- n. In a technical sense, the life-history of an animal: especially used in entomology.
- n. Animal magnetism.
Wiktionary
- n. The study of all life or living matter
- n. The living organisms of a particular region.
- n. The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.
WordNet 3.0
- n. all the plant and animal life of a particular region
- n. the science that studies living organisms
- n. characteristic life processes and phenomena of living organisms
Etymologies
- German Biologie : Greek bio-, bio- + Greek -logiā, -logy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This led to a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of South Carolina in 1948 and a master's degree in microbiology from the University of Tennessee in 1949.”
“You have failed to show that nested hierarchy in biology is any different from any other nested hierarchy.”
“Knowledge gained in biology is being transferred to engineering.”
“The most significant unanswered question in biology is the origin of life.”
“AIGUY: The purposeful arrangements of parts we see in biology is caused by that which causes the purposeful arrangement of parts?”
“The purposeful arrangements of parts we see in biology is caused by that which causes the purposeful arrangement of parts?”
“If you ask the "pro-science" bloggers, any skepticism about orthodox evolutionary biology is "anti-evolution", and nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”
“The "nothing in biology" is a metaphor which denotes the enormous volume of evidence which fits together like pieces in a puzzle under the theory of evolution.”
“For that matter, the rule in biology is biological deadends.: grin:”
“The issue of ultimate causes in biology is surfacing in peer-reviewed books and journals.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘biology’.
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Triphthongs
Words with triphthongs in
layer, player, payee, pompeii, tyre, fire, higher, liar, employer, soya, paranoia, sequoia and 14 more...
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bio-
of or relating to life
biology, biohazard, biome, biosphere, biotic, biography, biologist, biographer, biochemistry, biogenesis, autobiography, biostatic and 1 more...
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First Lists
Do you remember your first list? The one that *sniff* started it all? The rocky road to Wordie/nik addiction?
What does your first list say about you?
I will add your list as ...torture, well-suited words, Common words, but..., De rerum natura, A Serving of Rand..., Words, Words that deligh..., sionnach's Words, the catch-all, some words, Just 'cause I lik..., Wordplayer's Wond... and 18 more...
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Ophelia
Words to describe John Everett Millais' Ophelia
biosphere, biology, community, habitat, biotic, vivacious, nature, natural, detail, ecology ecosystem, dense, elaborate and 33 more...
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-logy, -ology, -logical, -logic
denoting or relating to a subject of study or type of speech or language
philological, trilogy, eulogy, psychology, biology, archaeology, scientology, philology, geology, zoology
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Jigsaw Codex
List? What list?
This is the list that makes up the world.cat, boustrophedon, syndetic, life, imbroglio, interlude, composition, investigation, cantankerous, him, sign, universality and 189 more...
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ologies
technology, zymology, zygology, zoophytology, zoophysiology, zoopathology, zoonosology, zoology, zoogeology, zooarchaeology, xylology, vulcanology and 850 more...
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fascination
biology, psychology, linguistics, literature, poetry, photography, writing, etiology, mythology, theology, art, physiology and 11 more...
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ecology
symbiosis, primary, secondary, tertiary, pioneer, plant, disturbance, vine maple, douglas fir, western red cedar, sword fern, salmonberry and 62 more...
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ologies, ographies, onomies, &c.
biology, cartography, zoology, sociology, psychology, hagiography, radiography, biography, anthropology, archaeology, chromatography, mythology and 24 more...
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mine's an ology!
words ending in ology
biology, oncology, nephrology, histology, microbiology, pathology, zoology, neurology, gynaecology, etiology
Tweets
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blafferty qroqqa's first list May 18, 2011
mollusque I have a Biology list. :-) Aug 18, 2008
bookhling I can't believe this word is on such a few wordies lists. People should take their biology seriously, I say. Aug 18, 2008