biotic
pertaining to life.
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Origin of biotic
1- Also bi·ot·i·cal .
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How to use biotic in a sentence
That pre-biotic material could be a recipe for life in the subsurface pools.
The Hunt for Life on Jupiter's Moon Europa Just Got a Little Easier | Jeffrey Kluger | April 21, 2022 | TimeWhen you do, she decides to drop the “tough biotic b----” act and finally be emotionally vulnerable with another human being.
Every ‘Mass Effect’ squadmate, ranked from a storytelling perspective | Jhaan Elker | June 4, 2021 | Washington PostThis other doubt is a passionate doubt, it is the eternal conflict between reason and feeling, science and life, logic and biotic.
Tragic Sense Of Life | Miguel de UnamunoThese contact zones are, in a special sense, the province of geography in both its physical and its biotic aspects.
College Teaching | Paul KlapperEach of these has varying combinations of physical and biotic factors that are important in the ecology of amphibians.
A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico | William E. Duellman
The last is like that described for the Tamaulipan biotic Province.
The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico | Ticul AlvarezWithin these zones certain ecologic communities can be recognized; these represent several biotic provinces.
Mammals of the San Gabriel Mountains of California | Terry A. Vaughan
British Dictionary definitions for biotic
/ (baɪˈɒtɪk) /
of or relating to living organisms
(of a factor in an ecosystem) produced by the action of living organisms: Compare edaphic
Origin of biotic
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for biotic
[ bī-ŏt′ĭk ]
Consisting of living organisms. An ecosystem is made up of a biotic community (all of the naturally occurring organisms within the system) together with the physical environment.
Associated with or derived from living organisms. The biotic factors in an environment include the organisms themselves as well as such items as predation, competition for food resources, and symbiotic relationships. Compare abiotic.
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