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bi·ol·o·gy

(bī-ŏl′ə-jē)

1. The science of life and of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution and encompassing numerous fields such as botany, zoology, mycology, and microbiology.

2. The life processes or characteristic phenomena of a group or category of living organisms: the biology of fungi.

3. The living organisms present in a specific area or region.

[German Biologie : Greek bio-, bio- + Greek -logiā, -logy.]

bi·ol′o·gist n.

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Noun

biologist - (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms

life scientist

biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms

bacteriologist - a biologist who studies bacteria

botanist, phytologist, plant scientist - a biologist specializing in the study of plants

cytologist - a biologist who studies the structure and function of cells

ecologist - a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment

geneticist - a biologist who specializes in genetics

microbiologist - a specialist in microbiology

molecular biologist - a biologist who studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life

natural scientist, naturalist - a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology)

neurobiologist - a specialist in neurobiology

physiologist - a biologist specializing in physiology

radiobiologist - a biologist who studies the effects of radiation on living organisms

scientist - a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences

sociobiologist - a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior

systematist, taxonomer, taxonomist - a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior

vivisectionist - a biologist who cuts open live animals for research

animal scientist, zoologist - a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals

Translations

biolog

biológus

líffræðingurlíffræîingur

biologo

生物学者

biolog

биолог

biológ

biolog

bioyolog

生物学家

biologist

[baɪˈɒlədʒɪst] N → biólogo/a m/f

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biologist

[baɪˈɒlədʒɪst] n → biologiste mf

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biologist

n → Biologe m, → Biologin f

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biologist

[baɪˈɒlədʒɪst] n → biologo/a

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biology

(baiˈolədʒi) noun

the science of living things. human biology; (also adjective) a biology lesson.

bioˈlogical (-ˈlo-) adjective

bioˈlogically (-ˈlo-) adverb

biˈologist noun

biological warfare

the use of germs as a weapon.

bi·ol·o·gist

n. biólogo-a.

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I am in the position of a biologist who from a single bone must reconstruct not only the appearance of an extinct animal, but its habits.

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Always keenly interested in biology, his almost unlimited means had permitted him to undertake, in secret, a series of daring experiments which had carried him so far in advance of the biologists of his day that he had, while others were still groping blindly for the secret of life, actually reproduced by chemical means the great phenomenon.

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