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biotas

biotas is the plural of biota.

Meaning of biota

Noun

biota (countable and uncountable, plural biotas)

  1. (uncountable) Synonym of life; Biota; all living things.
    Synonyms:
    life
  2. The living organisms of a region.
    • Although the broad macroevolutionary consequences of mass extinctions are well known (as in the dinosaurs-mammals changeover), their long-term effects on the temporal and spatial dynamics of clades and biotas are rarely investigated.2009 February 6, Andrew Z. Krug et al., “Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 767–771
  3. A coniferous tree, Oriental arborvitae (Platycladus orientalis, syn. Biota orientalis).

Questions about biotas

What is biotas the plural of?
Biotas is the plural of biota.

Words near biotas in the dictionary

  1. biotagged
  2. biotagging
  3. biotags
  4. biotarget
  5. biotargets
  6. biotas
  7. biotaxis
  8. biotaxonomic
  9. biotaxonomy
  10. biotaxy
  11. biotch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: biotas (page history and authors); biota (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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