biota

See also: Biota

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊtə

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos).

Noun

biota (plural biotas)

1. (ecology) The living organisms of a region.
   • 2009 February 6, Andrew Z. Krug et al., “Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota”, in Science‎^[1], volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 767-771:

     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.

2. (syn. , Oriental arborvitae).

Translations

the living organisms of a region

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生物群 (zh) (shēngwùqún), 生物相 (zh) (shēngwùxiāng), 地方生物誌／地方生物志 (dìfāng shēngwùzhì), 地方生物志 (dìfāng shēngwùzhì)

• Finnish: biota, eliöstö
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• French: biote (fr) m
• Greek: βιόκοσμος (el) m (viókosmos)
• Occitan: biòta f

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Spanish

Noun

biota f (plural biotas)

1. biota

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Venetian

Adjective

biota

1. feminine singular of bioto