biological
Also biologic .Biology. relating to the science and application of biology: Ideal candidates will have appropriate training in both physical and biological chemistry.
Biology. relating to or involving living matter: Liquid nitrogen is critical for preserving blood, tissue, and other biological specimens.
Biology. relating to the living organisms of a region:We are hoping to manage the river valley so that we maintain and enhance the current level of biological diversity.
Biology, Genetics. related genetically, as a birth parent whose egg or sperm contributed to the DNA of a child: He met his biological father when he was 37.The Greenes have two biological sons and one adopted daughter.
Usually biologicals. Pharmacology. biologic (def. 1).
Origin of biological
1Other words from biological
- bi·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb
- non·bi·o·log·i·cal, adjective
- non·bi·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb
- pseu·do·bi·o·log·i·cal, adjective
- pseu·do·bi·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb
- sem·i·bi·o·log·ic, adjective
- sem·i·bi·o·log·i·cal, adjective
- sem·i·bi·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb
- un·bi·o·log·i·cal, adjective
- un·bi·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb
Words Nearby biological
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How to use biological in a sentence
Eating disorders, on the other hand, are driven largely by biological processes that occur on the inside.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models | Carrie Arnold | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTWe also have a growing body of biological research showing that fathers, like mothers, are hard-wired to care for children.
How Good Dads Can Change the World | Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTGender roles exceed the biological circumstances of childbirth and they are, perhaps, much less likely to change.
Her adopted daughter tried to suffocate a younger biological sibling.
Imagining novels as biological specimens creates a crazed and mythic zoology of hybrids, beasts, mutants, and aberrations.
The biological doctrine of evolution was misinterpreted and misapplied to social policy.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockIn short, birth was fortuitous, a product of circumstance plus proximity, its get a biological accident.
But there is a wide gulf between that and concluding that all psycho-biological phenomena are hallucinations.
Urania | Camille FlammarionIt is indispensable to check these against biological fact, in order to ascertain which are feasible and which are not.
Taboo and Genetics | Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary BlanchardCivilization would not be civilization if we had to spend most of our time thinking about the biological basis.
Taboo and Genetics | Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard
British Dictionary definitions for biological
archaic biologic
/ (ˌbaɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl) /
of or relating to biology
(of a detergent) containing enzymes said to be capable of removing stains of organic origin from items to be washed
(usually plural) a drug, such as a vaccine, that is derived from a living organism
Derived forms of biological
- biologically, adverb
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