biology
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
biology/bʌɪˈɒləʤi/
▶noun
- 1 the scientific study of living organisms.
- 2 the plants and animals of a particular area.
- 3 the features of a particular organism or class of organisms.
– derivatives
biologist noun.
biologist noun.
'biology' also found in these Oxford entries:
Ab
- aberrant
- aberration
- abort
- abortion
- abortive
- acclimatize
- acellular
- -aceous
- acidophilic
- acquired character
- actinomorphic
- active transport
- acuminate
- adaptation
- adaptationism
- adaptive radiation
- adipocyte
- adventitious
- aerobe
- aerobic
- agamic
- agglutinin
- agrobiology
- allelochemical
- allometry
- allopatric
- alternation of generations
- amitotic
- anaerobe
- anaerobic
- analogous
- anatomy
- animal
- anisogamy
- anlage
- anterior
- antibiosis
- antioxidant
- appendage
- archaea
- arenaceous
- areola
- areole
- armature
- asexual
- astrobiology
- autecology
- autogamy
- autolysis
