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biontic

biontic adjective: relating to an individual organism. Also the misspelling of biotic.

Adjective

biontic (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Relating to an individual organism.
    • The complete and accurate repetition of phyletic by biontic development is obliterated and abbreviated by secondary contraction, as ontogeny strikes out for itself an ever straighter course; accordingly, the repetition is the more complete the longer the series of young stages successively passed...1988, Keith Stewart Thomson, Morphogenesis and Evolution, page 20
    • There is no need to clutter the literature with more long Germanic compounds: suffice it to say that referring to the organism/habitat relationship as biontic, philic or xenic summarises the above arguments succinctly.2000, R. L. Kitching, Food Webs and Container Habitats, page 44
  2. (nonstandard, obsolete) Biological.

Also used as

biontic is also the misspelling of biotic.

Questions about biontic

What does biontic mean?
Biontic means relating to an individual organism.
What part of speech is biontic?
Biontic is an adjective.

Words near biontic in the dictionary

  1. bionomist
  2. bionomists
  3. bionomy
  4. bions
  5. biont
  6. biontic
  7. bionts
  8. bionuclear
  9. bionucleonic
  10. bionucleonics
  11. bionucleophile

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