Crossword clues for biotic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biotic \Bi*ot"ic\, a. [Gr. biwtiko`s pert. to life.]
(Biol.) Relating to life; as, the biotic principle.
produced by or caused by living things.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to life," 1847, in the medical sense, from Latin bioticus, from Greek biotikos "pertaining to life," from bios "life" (see bio-). Biotic factor was in use by 1907. Related: Biotical.
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or produced by life or living organisms.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to living organisms
Wikipedia
Biotic describes a living or once living component of a community; for example organisms, such as plants and animals.
Biotic may refer to:
- Life, the condition of living organisms
- Biology, the study of life
- Biotic material, which is derived from living organisms
- Biotic components in ecology
- Biotic potential, an organism's reproductive capacity
- Biotic community, all the interacting organisms living together in a specific habitat
- Biotic energy, a vital force theorized by biochemist Benjamin Moore
Biotic may also refer to:
- Biotic Baking Brigade, an unofficial group of pie-throwing activists
Usage examples of "biotic".
The Yuuzhan Vong must be replacing the abiotic drainage systems with biotic ones.
Yuuzhan Vong must be replacing the abiotic drainage systems with biotic ones.
When he needs breath he pulls the statue to him, the little grotesquerie hunched and glowing in the night sea with faint biotic light, the toothed osculum a puncture-hole of dark, the open eye wide and mocking, tar-black, and he kisses it deeply and feels its flickering tongue-thing with the disgust that he can never banish.
He worked a bit of dip and spat it into a pocket in the biotic underlayer of the all-enveloping helmet.
New Republic, Imperial Remnant, or nonaligned - or even that their biotic warships and weapons packed such awesome destructive power.
Yuuzhan Vong must be replacing the abiotic drainage systems with biotic ones.
Though Jaina found the structure of the biotic computer hopelessly bewildering, Lowbacca was engrossed in dissecting the thing, using a small set of steristeel tools to snip here and move there, grunting in satisfaction as the fibers reattached themselves in new locations.
Twenty biotic berthing bays lay spaced evenly across the floor, all covered by retractable carapaces and sized to accommodate corvette-analog vessels.
Only the rescue vessel, sitting pinched in its biotic berthing bay, was distinct and easy to see.
Heretofore he would be more careful, would respect anything and everything as implicitly biotic and therefore potentially hazardous no matter how inert or inactive it might initially appear to be.
Their radiance was decaying into greenish blue, giving the wrinkled passage a biotic appearance, as if it had been grown, the inside of a giant root.
In the next millennium, information science was crossed with biology to produce a swell of biotic acceleration.
Starfleet Medical catalogue and test all the biotic material you brought back from the Borg recycling world.
By that I mean that combat tactics seem to be directed by a creature known as a yammosk, or war coordinator, which serves as a kind of biotic battle analysis computer.
Nirgal's acquaintances said it was the most diverse biotic community on Mars.