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/bˌaɪəlˈɑdʒɪkəl/ Listen

adjective

Biological, Biologic adj.

Of or relating to biology.

Related by blood; of parents and children; contrasted with adoptive, adopted, or foster; as, Mary was adopted directly from the maternity hospital and never met her biological mother.

Synonyms: biologic.

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Etymology of 'Biological'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... all our population and especially to seamen. Here I have only touched upon one or two subjects in the wide range of study which will occupy the time and thoughts of one half of your membership, devoted as two of your four sections will be to geological and biological sciences. It will be your province to aid and encourage the workers in their acquisition of knowledge of that nature, each of whose secrets may become the prize of him who shall make one of her mysteries ...

— Memories of Canada and Scotland - Speeches and Verses • John Douglas Sutherland Campbell

... furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole organic world; therefore, the study of butterflies— creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity— instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science. ...

— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates

... named Flying Fish Cove, landed a party and made a small but interesting collection of the flora and fauna. In the following year Captain Aldrich on H.M.S. "Egeria" visited it, accompanied by Mr J.J. Lister, F.R.S., who formed a larger biological and mineralogical collection. Among the rocks then obtained and submitted to Sir John Murray for examination there were detected specimens of nearly pure phosphate of lime, a discovery which eventually led, in June 1888, to the annexation of the island to the British crown. Soon ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 - "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" • Various

... interesting part of it!" Adams enthused. "Fascinating! And, indubitably, supremely important. In fact, it may point out the key datum underlying the solution of our entire problem. If this zeta field is causing this seemingly peculiar biological effect, that gives us a tremendously powerful new tool, for certain time vectors in the generalized matrix become parameters. Thus, certain determinants, notably the all-important delta-prime-sub-mu, become manipulable by ...

— Subspace Survivors • E. E. Smith

... these eight functions in one way or another. The bacterium, the simplest animal, the lowest plant, the higher plants and animals,—all of these have a biological problem to solve which comprises eight terms or parts, no more and no less. This is surely an astonishing agreement when we consider the varied forms of living creatures. And perhaps when we see ...

— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton

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