Biontic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Biontic is an adjective meaning (biology, rare) Relating to an individual organism.
Meaning
(biology, rare) Relating to an individual organism.
More Meanings
- Misspelling of biotic.
- (obsolete or nonstandard) Biological.
Example Sentences
Soil contains biontic and abiontic lipids.
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.
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 through.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include biotic, bionomic, bioindividual, bionomical, biologic, biogenetic.
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