| 单词 | biological |
| 释义 | biological (once / 1250 pages) adj When you use the word biological, you're talking about life and living things. You'll recognize the root "bio-," meaning "life," as in biography — the story of someone's life — and biology — the study of living organisms. The woman who gave birth to you is your biological mother — she's passed her genes on to you and you're related to her, even if somebody else raised you. Anybody you share genes with is your biological relative. Biological cleaning products make use of natural enzymes, and they're supposed to be safe and non-toxic. On the other hand, biological warfare uses bacteria, viruses, and other naturally occurring poisons to injure and kill people. WORD FAMILYbiological: biologically+/biologist: biologists/biology: biologic, biological, biologies, biologist, microbiology/microbiologist: microbiologists/microbiology: microbiologist USAGE EXAMPLESThe whole point of the article is that it is mostly biological determinism. New York Times(May 02, 2016) We’d say “that’s a lot of monkey business” were it not an unforgivable misuse of biological nomenclature. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) The site is powered by Cytoscape, software designed for biological research and for complex network analysis and visualisation. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) 1adj pertaining to biology or to life and living things Syn biologic 2adj of parents and children; related by blood biological child Syn|Ant begotten (of offspring) generated by procreation naturalrelated by blood; not adopted adoptive of parents and children; related by adoption foster, surrogateproviding or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties |
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