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bionomics
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bionomics has 1 sense
- bionomics(n = noun.cognition) ecology, environmental science - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment; Array is a kind of biological science, biology
has particulars: palaeoecology, paleoecology
Derived forms adjective bionomic1, adjective bionomical1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bionomics, n.pl. (treated as sing.) the study of the mode of life of organisms in their natural habitat and their adaptations to their surroundings.
Derivative
bionomic adj.
Etymology
BIO- after ECONOMICS
THESAURUS
bionomics
aerobiology, agrobiology, anatomy, astrobiology, autecology, bacteriology, biochemics, biochemistry, biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics, biometry, bionics, biophysics, botany, cell physiology, cryobiology, cybernetics, cytology, ecoclimate, ecodeme, ecology, ecosystem, electrobiology, element, embryology, enzymology, ethnobiology, exobiology, genetics, gnotobiotics, life science, medium, microbiology, molecular biology, pharmacology, physiology, radiobiology, synecology, taxonomy, virology, xenobiology, zoology
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