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biology (countable and uncountable, plural biologies)
- The study of all life or living matter.
- Synonyms: life science, life sciences, lifelore (rare); see also Thesaurus:biology
2012 January, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 3 October 2013, page 31:As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
- The living organisms of a particular region.
1893, “Prizes for original work with the microscope”, in Proceedings of the American Microscopical Society, volume 14, page 38:The object of these prizes is to stimulate and encourage original investigation by the aid of the microscope in the biology of North America, and, while the competition is open to all, it is especially commended to advanced students in biology in such of our universities and colleges as furnish opportunity for suitable work.
- The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
the biology of the whale
- (archaic) A biographical history.
1912, J. H. Rose, C[harles] H[arold] Herford, E[dward] C[arter] K[earsey] Gonner, M[ichael] E[rnest] Sadler, Germany in the Nineteenth Century: Five Lectures, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, Inc., page 67:That a Town has a biology of its own has been, since Freeman and Green, a familiar idea to us. But it was not in England, with its old established central governments, that the idea was likely to arise; and we know what the local history of our old antiquaries was like.
Translations
study of living matter
- Afrikaans: biologie (af)
- Albanian: biologji (sq) f
- Arabic: عِلْم اَلْأَحْيَاء (ar) m (ʕilm al-ʔaḥyāʔ), بِيُولُوجِيَا (ar) f (biyulūjiyā)
- Hijazi Arabic: أحيا f (ʔaḥya)
- Armenian: կենսաբանություն (hy) (kensabanutʻyun)
- Assamese: জীৱ বিজ্ঞান (ziw biggan)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܘܼܠܦܵܢ ܚܲܝܘܼܬܵܐ m (yulpan ḳāyuta)
- Asturian: bioloxía (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: biologiya
- Balinese: ᬚᬶᬯᬯᬶᬤ᭄ᬬ (jiwawidya)
- Basque: biologia (eu)
- Belarusian: біяло́гія (be) f (bijalóhija), біёлё́гія f (bijoljóhija) (Taraškievica), біолё́гія f (bioljóhija) (Taraškievica)
- Bengali: জীববিজ্ঞান (bn) (jibbiggên)
- Breton: bevoniezh (br)
- Buginese: ᨅᨗᨕᨚᨒᨚᨁᨗ
- Bulgarian: биология (bg) f (biologija)
- Burmese: ဇီဝဗေဒ (my) (jiwa.beda.)
- Buryat: биологи (biologi), амин шудалал (amin šudalal)
- Catalan: biologia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 生物學/生物学 (saang1 mat9 hok9)
- Hakka: 生物學/生物学 (sâng-vu̍t-ho̍k)
- Hokkien: 生物學/生物学 (seng-bu̍t-ha̍k)
- Mandarin: 生物學/生物学 (zh) (shēngwùxué)
- Cornish: bywonieth
- Czech: biologie (cs) f
- Danish: biologi (da)
- Dhivehi: ދިރުމާބެހޭ އިލްމު (dirumābehē ilmu)
- Dinka: piöcëpïr
- Dutch: biologie (nl)
- Esperanto: biologio (eo)
- Estonian: bioloogia (et), eluteadus
- Farefare: vɔbõnkarẽŋrɛ
- Faroese: lívfrøði f
- Finnish: biologia (fi)
- French: biologie (fr) f
- Galician: bioloxía (gl) f
- Georgian: ბიოლოგია (biologia)
- German: Biologie (de) f
- Greek: βιολογία (el) f (viología)
- Greenlandic: biologii, uumassusililerineq
- Gujarati: જીવવિજ્ઞાન f (jīvvijñān)
- Hawaiian: kālaimeaola
- Hebrew: ביולוגיה (he) f (biologia)
- Hindi: जीवविज्ञान (hi) (jīvvijñān), जीवशास्त्र m (jīvśāstra), जीवविद्या f (jīvvidyā)
- Hungarian: biológia (hu)
- Icelandic: líffræði (is) f
- Ido: biologio (io)
- Indonesian: biologi (id), ilmu hayat (id)
- Interlingua: biologia (ia)
- Inuktitut: ᐆᒪᔅᓱᓯᖃᕐᑐᓕᕆᓂᖅ (oomassosiqartoliriniq)
- Irish: bitheolaíocht f
- Italian: biologia (it) f
- Japanese: 生物学 (ja) (せいぶつがく, seibutsugaku)
- Kannada: ಜೀವಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (jīvaśāstra)
- Khmer: ជីវវិទ្យា (km) (chiivea vityie)
- Korean: 생물학(生物學) (ko) (saengmulhak)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ژینناسی (ckb) (jînnasî)
- Northern Kurdish: biyolojî (ku), jiyannasî (ku), zîndewerzanî (ku)
- Lao: ຊີວະສາດ (lo) (sī wa sāt)
- Latin: biologia f
- Latvian: bioloģija (lv) f
- Lithuanian: biologija (lt) f
- Malay: biologi (ms), kaji hayat (ms)
- Malayalam: ജീവശാസ്ത്രം (ml) (jīvaśāstraṁ)
- Maltese: bioloġija
- Manx: bea-oaylleeaght
- Maori: mātauranga koiora
- Marathi: जीवशास्त्र n (jīvśāstra)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: биологи (mn) (biologi), амин судлал (amin sudlal), амьд бодисын судлал (amʹd bodisyn sudlal) (esp China)
- Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠣᠯᠣᠭᠢ (biologi), ᠠᠮᠢᠨ
ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠯ (amin sudulul), ᠠᠮᠢᠳᠤ ᠪᠣᠳᠢᠰ ᠦᠨ ᠰᠤᠳᠤᠯᠤᠯ (amidu bodis-ün sudulul)
- Nahuatl: yolizmatiliztli
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: biologi (no) m
- Nynorsk: biologi (nn) m
- Occitan: biologia (oc) f
- Pashto: ژوندپوهنه f (žwandpohəna)
- Persian: زیستشناسی (fa) (zist-šenâsi), بیولوژی (fa) (biyoloži)
- Plautdietsch: Läwenslia f
- Polish: biologia (pl) f
- Portuguese: biologia (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਜੀਵ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ m (jīv vigiāna)
- Quechua: kawsay yachay
- Romanian: biologie (ro) f
- Russian: биоло́гия (ru) f (biológija)
- Scots: biologie
- Scottish Gaelic: bith-eòlas m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: биологија f
- Roman: biologija (sh) f
- Shona: ketaupenyu
- Sindhi: جِياڀياسُ (sd) m
- Sinhalese: ජීවවිද්යාව (jīwawidyāwa)
- Slovak: biológia (sk) f
- Slovene: biologija (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: biologija f
- Upper Sorbian: biologija f
- Spanish: biología (es) f
- Swahili: biolojia (sw), elimuviumbe
- Swedish: biologi (sv) c, fortplantningsbeteende
- Tagalog: biyolohiya, haynayan (tl)
- Tamil: உயிரியல் (ta) (uyiriyal)
- Telugu: జీవశాస్త్రము (te) (jīvaśāstramu)
- Thai: ชีววิทยา (th) (chii-wá-wít-tá-yaa)
- Turkish: biyoloji (tr), dirim bilimi (tr), yaşam bilimi, canlı bilimi (tr)
- Ukrainian: біологія (uk) f (biolohija)
- Urdu: حیاتیات (ur) f (hiatiyaat)
- Vietnamese: sinh học (vi), sinh vật học (vi) (生物學)
- Volapük: lifav
- Welsh: bioleg (cy) f, bywydeg (cy)
- Yiddish: ביאָלאָגיע f (byologye)
- Yoruba: bàọ́lọ́jì, bàyọ́lọ́jì
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structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism