"Earth's surface and lower atmosphere as the realm of living organisms," 1899, from or modeled on German Biosphäre (1875), which was coined by German geologist Eduard Suess; see bio- + sphere.
bionomy
biopic
biopsy
biorhythm
bioscience
biosphere
biosynthesis
biota
biotaxy
biotech
biotechnology
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