Biology

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  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The life processes or characteristic phenomena of a group or category of living organisms.
  • noun. The plant and animal life of a specific area or region.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The science of life and living things in the widest sense; the body of doctrine respecting living beings; the knowledge of vital phenomena.
  • noun. In a more special sense, physiology; biophysiology; biotics.
  • noun. In a technical sense, the life-history of an animal: especially used in entomology.
  • noun. Animal magnetism.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The study of all life or living matter
  • noun. The living organisms of a particular region.
  • noun. The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. all the plant and animal life of a particular region
  • noun. the science that studies living organisms
  • noun. characteristic life processes and phenomena of living organisms
    • Word Usage
    "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."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Life  accumulation  aggregation  assemblage  collection  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Egyptology  Scientology  anesthesiology  anthology  anthropology  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    archæology  biochemistry  ecology  economics  ethic  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aerobiology  agrobiology  anatomy  animal physiology  anthropology  
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