biotic

Speech parts

1. biotic - Noun

2. biotic - Adjective

Meaning

Relating to life; as, the biotic principle.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

living organic biologic botanical original natural live active necessary zoological critical nuclear organized essential fundamental
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Antonyms

abiotic needless auxiliary minor secondary plastic
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Phrases with the word

biotic potential anti-biotic

Examples

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. Aldo Leopold

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways. Ernst Mayr

An ethic to supplement and guide the economic relation to land presupposes the existence of some mental image of land as a biotic mechanism. Aldo Leopold

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. Aldo Leopold

Now at last, as it has become apparent that the heedless and unrestrained use of chemicals is a greater menace to ourselves than to the targets, the river which is the science of biotic control flows again, fed by new streams of thought. Rachel Carson

Because carbon uptake in the terrestrial biosphere is dependent on biotic factors, it follows a diurnal and seasonal cycle. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

biothickener biothiol biothreat biotic community biotic potential biotical