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biological
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Word definitions for biological in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a religious/military/biological etc metaphor ▪ He uses a military metaphor to describe these women as ‘storming’ the castle of male power. a sexual/biological urge ▪ Most of us feel the biological urge to reproduce. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1840, from biology + -ical . Biological clock attested from 1955; not especially of human reproductive urges until c.1991. Related: Biologically .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. pertaining to biology or to life and living things [syn: biologic ] of parents and children; related by blood; "biological child" [ant: adoptive ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to biology.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biologic \Bi`o*log"ic\, Biological \Bi`o*log"ic*al\, a. Of or relating to biology. -- Bi`o*log"ic*al*ly , adv. related by blood; -- of parents and children; -- contrasted with adoptive , adopted , or foster ; as, Mary was adopted directly from the maternity ...
Usage examples of biological.
It had been almost a year since he had discovered her identity with the help of an Internet search group dedicated to reuniting adoptees with their biological parents.
We might not have enough forces to aggressively seek out and suppress Iraqi artillery and multiple-rocket launchers that Iraq would use to fire chemical and possibly biological weapons at our troops.
Bin Ria Dem Loa Alem, was the child of the current partnership -- although the biological child of which woman, I never discovered -- and that he was dying of cancer.
WMD, no small concern in a nation that had once amassed a considerable arsenal of chemical weapons, biological agents, and Scud missiles, and was not now a model of governmental organization.
Biological processes of some sort were taking place here, anabolism, catabolism, ingestion, respiration, reproduction, whatever.
These heavily optimized fake stem cells biological robots in all but name spawn like cancer, ejecting short-lived anucleated secondary cells.
The fact that philosophers, modelers and neurobiologists are actually listening to one another, and that computer people have at last begun to show some respect for biological as well as artefactual brains, clearly makes their analyses an advance over the earlier ones, in which Al enthusiasts tended to run away with preconceived notions of what nerve cells did, and soon cut off all meaningful contact with the biological phenomena which the neurobiologists were studying.
Ever since the first dab of living substance was brewed up in the amino-acid-tainted soups of azoic oceans on our primordial Earth, and the first simple prototypes of the double-helix DNA molecules of heredity appeared, biological forms have been becoming more complex--learning, acquiring more know-how.
What a berdache is, basically, is someone who adopts a gender other than their biological one.
So a biocentric psychology is one that approaches the study of human beings from a biological or a life-centered perspective.
In most cases - unless you happen to be at the actual site of the chemical or biological agents - you are likely to have time to take the one precaution that applies to all biochem hazards: avoiding areas near the contamination.
We packed our biological agents in small melon-sized metal balls, called bomblets, set to explode several miles upwind from the target city.
If you regard the general condition of misery as the sole source of criminality, then you cannot get around the difficulty that out of one thousand individuals living in misery from the day of their birth to that of their death only one hundred or two hundred become criminals, while the other nine hundred or eight hundred either sink into biological weakness, or become harmless maniacs, or commit suicide without perpetrating any crime.
He gives a precise biological description of every imaginable thing there is to eat, then presents an exact analysis of every imaginable method of cooking it and shows how all the glories of cuisine rise out of the limitless intersections of these two forces.
WarAvocat and Deified, krekelen and witnesses, all were part of a dramatization for slower biological minds.