unbiologicaladj.
1. Not in accord with the findings of biology.
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unbiological1934
1934 Mind 43 519 Positivism and Kantianism were pre-evolutionary and unbiological.
1977 P. Johnson Enemies of Society xv. 197 Many of the central ideas of psychoanalysis are profoundly unbiological.
2. Not such as occurs in the course of nature, as studied in biology.
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abiological1868
non-biological1882
abiologic1900
unbiological1950
1950 G. Sircom tr. H. Hediger Wild Animals in Captivity viii. 88 M. Holtzapfel..was able..to remove a long standing stereotyped movement in an armadillo..kept on a slippery and therefore unbiological floor, by providing a layer of earth ten inches deep.
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