Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or having to do with life or living organisms.
- adj. Produced or caused by living organisms.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as biotical.
- Pertaining to or treating of a biota, or the combined fauna and flora of a region or period: as, a biotic publication; a biotic region.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Biol.) Relating to life.
- adj. produced by or caused by living things.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to living organisms
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek βιωτικός (biōtikos, "of life"), from βίος (bios, "life"). (Wiktionary)
- Probably Greek biōtikos, from biōtos, life, from bioun, to live, from bios, life; see gwei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“According to the pro-ID side, ID is not only science, but also the best explanation for certain biotic phenomena.”
“It is reasonable to investigate the existince and implications of intelligent causation in biotic history, probably at the origin of life but also manifested in various evolutionary processes and biological facts (see Conway Morris here)”
“Commonalities help us figure out important differences, and what if it turns out the similarities in biotic forms are to help us learn different architectures of information representation.”
“What would be required is an observable analogy that things like the complexity we see in biotic system can be created through blind, non-intentional processes.”
“Intelligent design theorists claim that design can be detected in biotic reality.”
“In my early years as a pharmacist, I came across an interaction between a patient’s hypertension medicine, and a newly prescribed anti-biotic from a “skin doctor”.”
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“This type of pollination is called biotic pollination.”
“biotic" force is manifested, these colloidal or albuminous compounds are found.”
“In 1999 the System of Inspection and Quarantine for Galapagos (SICGAL) tied in other Ecuadorean institutions to start to control biotic invasions such as canine distemper.”
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“I have read of 3 day cures but frankly I fear anti-biotic resistant strains of bugs more than using antibiotics the way they are meant to be used i.e. well past when you feel better so I take them six or seven days.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘biotic’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 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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Ophelia
Words to describe John Everett Millais' Ophelia
biology, biosphere, community, habitat, biotic, vivacious, nature, natural, detail, ecology ecosystem, dense, elaborate and 33 more...
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Lively Words
quick, quicksilver, cwic, quitch grass, cwice, vivify, viviparous, viper, weever, wyvern, viand, victual and 148 more...
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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