biology
NounUS[bahy-ah-luh-jee]/baɪˈɑlədʒi/4 syllables
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Noun (3)
- the science that studies living organismsSynonyms: biological scienceType of life science, bioscienceKinds physiology, morphology, embryology, biodynamics, zoology, paleobiology, sociobiology, ecology, botany, cryobiology +9 more
- characteristic life processes and phenomena of living organisms“the biology of viruses”Type of life
- all the plant and animal life of a particular regionSynonyms: biotaType of collection, aggregationMembers vegetation, fauna
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Translations
Noun study of living matter
- Spanish
- biología
- French
- biologie
- German
- Biologie
- Italian
- biologia
- Portuguese
- biologia
- Turkish
- biyoloji
- Russian
- биоло́гия biológija
- Arabic
- عِلْم اَلْأَحْيَاء ʕilm al-ʔaḥyāʔ
- Chinese
- 生物学 shēngwùxué
- Japanese
- 生物学 seibutsugaku
36 more languages
- Dutch
- biologie
- Polish
- biologia
- Swedish
- biologi
- Greek
- βιολογία viología
- Korean
- 생물학 saengmulhak
- Indonesian
- biologi
- Vietnamese
- sinh học
- Hungarian
- biológia
- Portuguese (PT)
- biologia
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 生物 shēngwù
- Albanian
- biologji
- Breton
- bevoniezh
- Catalan
- biologia
- Corsican
- biolugia
- Czech
- biologie
- Danish
- biologi
- Esperanto
- biologio
- Estonian
- bioloogia
- Finnish
- biologia
- Georgian
- ბიოლოგია biologia
- Hebrew
- ביולוגיה biologia
- Icelandic
- líffræði
- Kurdish
- biyolojî
- Latvian
- bioloģija
- Lithuanian
- biologija
- Malagasy
- biolojia
- Norwegian
- biologi
- Romanian
- biologie
- Scottish Gaelic
- bith-eòlas
- Serbo-Croatian
- biologija
- Slovak
- biológia
- Slovenian
- biologija
- Swahili
- biolojia
- Walloon
- biyolodjeye
- Welsh
- bioleg
- Yiddish
- ביאָלאָגיע byologye
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Bi·ol′o·gy (…), noun
Origin: Gr. βίος life + -logy: cf. F. biologie.
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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54