n
(biology) The science studying the differential growth rates of the parts of a living organism.
adj
(botany, mycology) Joined or run together; interconnected.
n
the study of synthetic systems that behave like living organisms.
n
one of two broad subdivisions of ecology, which studies the individual organism or species.
n
(ecology) The six elements most used by life: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur.
adj
Pertaining to bioacoustics.
n
(biology) A biological archive
n
The assessment of the biological situation in a particular environment.
n
(biology) Any of several types of repository of biological material (e.g. seeds) or information (e.g. DNA).
n
(biology) An intense biological survey that attempts to record all the living species within a designated area
n
The capacity of an ecosystem to provide resources and absorb wastes.
n
(biology) A branch of ecology involving the study of the interactions between biological communities
n
(biology) a group of interacting animals and/or plants that form a particular ecosystem
adj
Relating to a biocenosis
n
(biology) Any of a number of institutions, often attached to a university, that are centres for biotechnology research and development
n
(biology) biological characterization
n
(ecology) A group of similar biotopes.
n
the length of time represented by a biozone
n
The study of bioclimatic relationships
adv
In a biocoenological manner; in a manner relating to biocoenology, the study of biocoenoses.
n
The study of biocoenoses.
adj
Relating to biocoenosis
n
A collection of biological material
adj
Pertaining to biocolonization, pertaining to or involving colonizing peoples by making them reliant on the colonizer's (bio)medical or (bioengineered) agricultural resources.
n
Communication within and between species of plants, animals, fungi and bacteria, by such means as vocalizations or chemical signals.
n
A biological community; an ecology
n
The study of complex structures and behaviours that arise from non-linear interactions of active biological agents, which may range in scale from molecules to cells to organisms.
n
(biology, ecology) connectivity between ecosystems
adj
Relating to life force and the cosmos.
adj
Relating to biocriminology.
n
(biology) A culture of living cells
n
A scientist whose speciality is biocuration
n
(biology) Any cyclic biological process
n
(ecology) The process of establishing and developing biodiversity
n
(ecology) The diversity (number and variety of species) of plant and animal life within a region.
n
(ecology) A place with a significant level of biodiversity, particularly if the flora and fauna are threatened with loss of their habitat.
adj
Relating to bioecology
n
The specifically biological aspects of ecology
n
The study of the dynamics of living resources using economic models.
n
A biologist or engineer whose speciality is bioengineering
n
A biological environment, or ecosystem.
n
(rare) Fraud in the context of biotechnology or a biological study.
n
(biology, dated) bioplasm
n
(sciences) The study of the complex biological systems and how they affect the environment.
n
(biology, geology, chemistry, ecology) The scientific study of biological, geological and chemical processes in the natural environment and especially of their mutual relationships
n
(biology, geology) The (study of the) interplay of biological and geological systems
adj
(ecology) Of or pertaining to the composite of biological, geological, and physical processes operating in an area
adj
Of or pertaining to biogerontology.
n
The investigation of life.
n
A biological heritage, typically in the form of biodiversity
adj
Relating to biohistory
n
An engineer who uses bioinspiration
n
(ecology) An inventory of the plants and animals in a location
n
A laboratory where biology is studied.
adj
Of or pertaining to biolistics
n
The locomotion of living organisms (and the study of this)
adj
Biological; pertaining to biology or to a living organism.
adj
Of or relating to biological determinism.
n
The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
n
The management of biological life in a region.
n
the deliberate alteration of an ecosystem by adding or removing species, especially predators
n
Any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert.
adj
Alternative form of biomechanical [Of or pertaining to biomechanics]
n
A mechanician whose speciality is biomechanics
n
The study of the relationship between atmospheric conditions (the weather) and living organisms.
n
(mathematics, biology) A mathematical model of a biological system (typically an ecosystem)
n
(ecology) The monitoring of the organisms that live in a particular environment in order to assess the continuing quality of the ecosystem
adj
Having the appearance of a biomorph; representing a living organism rather than an artistic or pragmatic ideal.
adj
Of or relating to biomythography.
adj
Of or relating to biomythography.
adj
Alternative form of bionomic [Relating to bionomics.]
n
The study of an organism and its relation to its environment; ecology.
n
The teaching of various aspects of biology
adj
Relating to biophilosophy.
n
(ecology) The cumulative non-human sound produced by living organisms in a given biome.
n
The interdisciplinary studies relating biology and political science.
n
(ecology) A biozone that is a subdivision of a bioregion.
adj
Of or pertaining to a bioregion.
n
(biology) a long-term storage and conservation facility for biological specimens
n
(biology) research in any of the biological sciences
n
(ecology) The ability of a whole species or an individual of a species to adapt to change.
adj
Relating to bioscience.
adj
Pertaining to biosedimentation.
n
semiosis in and between biological organisms
n
(biology, ecology) The study of biospheres
n
(ecology) A container in which organisms are kept in a controlled environment
adj
Pertaining to biostatistics.
adv
With reference to biostratinomy
n
(biology) The study of the processes that take place following the death of an organism
n
(biology) An academic field of biological studies
n
(biology) A biological academic study
adj
Of or pertaining to biosystematics
n
(ecology) The living organisms of a region.
n
A technician who works in a biological or biochemical laboratory
n
A technologist who works in the field of biotechnology
adj
Of or relating to time-based relationships in biological phenomena, such as life cycles and gestation periods.
n
(figuratively) a context where someone feels 'naturally' at home, such as their field of professional or scientific expertise
n
(biology) A chamber in which the effects of climate on organisms can be studied
n
(informal, countable) Something accepted as an inescapable or inherent product of biology.
n
(ecology) A surrogate for biomass, used in ecological studies of invertebrates (normally quoted in cubic millimetres).
n
Arrangement or distribution into biozones.
n
(ecology) The study of the dynamic changes that take place in the environment as a result of reaction between natural and man-made compounds, especially by pollutants
adj
Of or pertaining to chronobiology
n
(ecology) The study of the effects of time on ecosystems, especially the effects of periodicity
n
(systematics): A biologist who studies clades, an evolutionary biologist who studies the pattern of species interrelationships according to the principles of cladistics.
adj
climatic and physiological
n
(biology) The simultaneous diversification (evolution) of two species lineages (especially of a pathogen and its host)
adj
Relating to a coenobium
adj
Relating to the coenoecium.
adj
(ecology) Relating to coenology
n
A collection of life forms that are found together, interacting as a community within an ecosystem.
n
(biology) The scientific study of the state of Earth's biodiversity with the objective to protect it from becoming extinct.
adj
Alternative form of cosmotropic
adv
In terms of, or by means of, cytotaxonomy.
adv
In terms of, or by means of, dendroecology.
adj
(ecology, biology) ecological and biological
n
(chemistry) chemistry of ecosystems; environmental chemistry
n
(ecology) A group of organisms that share the same ecosystem
n
(ecology, computing) The use of computing and information science in ecology
n
(biology) The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
n
The mechanics of ecological interactions and relationships
n
(ecology) An ecological niche
n
(physics) The application of techniques from ecology to studies in physics
n
A combination of ecology and physiography
n
(biology) The study of the relationships between, and adaptation of, the physiology of an organism and its environment
n
(biology) sensitivity of an organism to its ecological environment
n
The interconnectedness of organisms (plants, animals, microbes) with each other and their environment.
adj
Relating to ecotechnology.
adj
(rare) Relating to any substance that is endogenous to the body or to an ecological system
adj
(ecology) Inhabiting several different biomes
n
The feeding relationships between species in a biotic community.
n
(biology) The application of biological techniques in forensic science
n
The idea that both the biosphere and the inorganic components of Earth interact to form a coherent, complex system that allows for life to persist.
n
(ecology) Species which can thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions. A eurytopic species.
n
A scientist whose speciality is genomics.
n
(biology) Life on the land considered collectively.
adj
Relating to the dynamics of geoecology
n
global-scale epidemiology
n
spatially-referenced phylogeny
adj
(biology) Of or pertaining to senescent animals or plants.
n
(ecology) The occurrence of an organism in a number of different habitats
n
(obsolete) The science dealing with the relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.
n
(ecology) dynamic stability in the presence of multiple different organisms
n
(biology) The study of the biology of the organisms that inhabit bodies of water.
n
(ecology) Any environment rich in water
adj
(ecology) Very diverse
adj
(ecology) Very dominant (typically being the species that accounts for more than half of a population)
n
(ecology) Excessive movement between the parts of a fragmented habitat
n
(paleontology) The branch of taxonomy that attempts to classify an animal based on its footprints, burrows, or other traces
n
(biology) The study of biological individuals
n
(ecology) Competition for resources between species.
n
(ecology) A species that exerts a large, stabilizing influence throughout an ecological community, despite its relatively small numerical abundance.
n
Any of the sciences dealing with living organisms, such as biology and zoology.
n
(biology) The transfer of life-bearing rocks, ejected from one planet, onto the surface of another
n
(biology) biodiversity of a macrobiome
n
(biology) The study of large living organisms.
n
(ecology) Large-scale diversity
n
(ecology) A relatively large niche
n
Relatively large-scale or widespread biodiversity
adj
(ecology) Involving species of different trophic levels of the same food chain
n
(ecology) The diversity of fungi in a particular environment
adv
In terms of, or by means of, mycology.
n
One who studies nanobiology.
n
(biology) The study of organisms living in the current era, as opposed to organisms that are extinct.
n
The idea that microscale disease foci are determined by the entire ecosystem.
adv
In the manner of a living organism.
adj
Relating to organicism.
adv
like an organism; in relation to an organism; at an organismic level
adj
(biogeography, of organisms) Whose ranges do not significantly overlap but are immediately adjacent to each other; they only occur together in the narrow contact zone, if at all.
n
(soil science) The diversity of soil types within an area
n
(biology) The study of the effect of climate on periodic biological phenomena.
n
A taxonomist who uses both cladistics and phenetic data to construct a phylogeny.
n
phylogenetic diversity between communities or biomes
n
phylogeography of plants, animals and ecosystems
n
(ecology) The diversity of phyla in a habitat etc
n
(evolutionary theory) The study of the processes controlling the geographic distributions of lineages by constructing the genealogies of populations and genes
n
(genetics) The stratigraphy of species and their genetic evolution
adj
Relating to physics and biology.
adj
Relating to physicotheology.
adj
physiological and ecological
adv
In a phytocoenological manner; in a manner relating to phytocoenology, the study of phytocoenoses.
n
(ecology) The diversity of plant species in an area
adj
(ecology) Relating to phytoecology
adj
Of or pertaining to phytophenomenology.
adj
Relating to phytosociology
adj
(ecology) Composed of (similar) organisms of many different species
adj
(conservation biology) of a habitat, not dominated by a single species
n
The supposed liquid mixture of organic compounds which, under the influence of ultraviolet light, lightning etc., gave rise to the first self-replicating structures and, eventually, to life
n
The early study of biology, before it became a rigorous established discipline.
adj
Of, relating to, or employing pseudobiology.
adj
Relating to psychosynthesis.
n
The varying effects of fires, especially of forest fires, on the environment
n
One who studies or carries out radiobiology.
n
(ecology) The number of types in a community.
adj
(biology) Describing ecological variables that do not interact with others, and change very slowly
n
(sociology, biology) sociobiological diversity
adj
(ecology) Inhabiting very few different biomes
adj
(ecology, of an organism) That can live in only a restrictive range of habitats
adj
(ecology) Able to tolerate or adapt to only a small range of environmental conditions
n
(ecology) One of two broad subdivisions of ecology (the other being autecology), meaning the study of groups of organisms associated as a unit (essentially a biological community).
n
(biology) The systematic study of the complex interactions in biological systems
adj
Relating to tektology.
n
(biology) The science of biological form
n
topological diversity (diversity from place to place)
n
(biology) A metaphor used to describe the relationships between organisms, both living and extinct, usually represented with a tree-like diagram.
n
(biology) A phylogenetic method of analysing evolutionary phenomena that uses the visualization of lineages as tree-like structures.
n
(ecology) A particular position occupied by a group of organisms in a food chain.
n
(ecology) diversity due to the presence of "foreign" organisms
n
(ecology) The group of biomes constituting a particular ecozone.
Note: Concept clusters like the one above are an experimental OneLook
feature. We've grouped words and phrases into thousands of clusters
based on a statistical analysis of how they are used in writing. Some
of the words and concepts may be vulgar or offensive. The names of the
clusters were written automatically and may not precisely describe
every word within the cluster; furthermore, the clusters may be
missing some entries that you'd normally associate with their
names. Click on a word to look it up on OneLook.
Color thesaurus
Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors
See an example
Literary notes
Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers
See an example
Threepeat
What percentile can you get today?
Play Now
Compound Your Joy
Today's secret word is 10 letters and means "Make invalid; render null, void." Can you find it?