biological

English

Etymology

biology +‎ -ical

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbaɪə(ʊ)ˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
• IPA^(key): /ˌbaɪəˈlɑdʒɪkəl/

Adjective

biological (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to biology.
   • 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 162:

     He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.

2. Related by consanguinity, especially as to parents and children.
3. (proscribed, an error in non-native speakers' English) Organic (grown without agrochemicals).
   • 2013, J. Hemmelskamp, ‎K. Rennings, and ‎F. Leone (eds.), Innovation-Oriented Environmental Regulation: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Analysis, p. 49:

     The market for cosmetics with natural ingredients in which the body shop is so successful is still a small one, as is the market for biological food products (1 per cent in the Netherlands).

Noun

biological (plural biologicals)

1. (rare) A biological product.
   • 1917, Lilly, Eli & Company, Indianapolis, A.B.C. Course on Biologicals, page 5

     This elementary treatise on biologicals was designed primarily for the instruction of Lilly salesmen to enable them to handle the biological line intelligently.

Synonyms

• biologic

Translations

of biology

• Albanian: biologjik (sq)
• Arabic: بيولوجي
• Armenian: կենսաբանական (hy) (kensabanakan)
• Asturian: biolóxicu
• Azerbaijani: bioloji
• Catalan: biològic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生物 (zh) (shēngwù)

• Czech: biologický (cs)
• Danish: biologisk (da)
• Dutch: biologisch (nl), biologische (nl)
• Finnish: biologinen (fi)
• French: biologique (fr)
• Galician: biolóxico
• Georgian: ბიოლოგიური (biologiuri)
• German: biologisch (de)
• Greek: βιολογικός (el) (viologikós)
• Hungarian: biológiai (hu)
• Irish: bitheolaíoch, bitheolaíochta
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• Italian: biologico (it)
• Japanese: 生物学の (せいぶつがくの, seibutsugaku no)
• Korean: 생물학의 (saengmulhagui)
• Latin: biologicus
• Latvian: bioloģisks
• Luxembourgish: biologesch (lb)
• Macedonian: биоло́шки (biolóški)
• Occitan: biologic
• Polish: biologiczny (pl)
• Portuguese: biológico (pt)
• Romanian: biologic (ro)
• Russian: биологи́ческий (ru) (biologíčeskij)
• Slovak: biologický
• Spanish: biológico (es)
• Tagalog: haynayin, haynayanin
• Turkish: biyolojik (tr), dirim bilimsel (tr)
• Welsh: biolegol (cy)
• Yiddish: ביאָלאָגיש (byologish)

consanguine

• Czech: biologický (cs)
• Dutch: biologisch (nl), biologische (nl)
• Finnish: biologinen (fi)
• French: biologique (fr)
• German: leiblich (de), biologisch (de)
• Hungarian: biológiai (hu)
• Italian: consanguineo (it)
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• Japanese: 実の (じつの, jitsu no)
• Macedonian: роден (roden), крвен (krven), биоло́шки (biolóški)
• Portuguese: biológico (pt)
• Russian: биологи́ческий (ru) (biologíčeskij), кро́вный (ru) (króvnyj), родно́й (ru) (rodnój)
• Spanish: biológico (es), consanguíneo
• Turkish: biyolojik (tr)
• Yiddish: ביאָלאָגיש (byologish)

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Korean: ^{(please verify)} 생물학 (ko) (saengmulhak)
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See also

• adoptive
• biological clock
• biological father
• biological mother
• birth mother