Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The living organisms of a region or habitat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sum total of animal and plant life of a given region or period: the equivalent of fauna and flora combined.
- noun A treatise upon the animals and plants of any geographic area or geologic period.
- noun A group of conifers, now commonly referred to Thuja, the arbor-vitæ. The name, however, is frequent in nurserymen's catalogues.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun all the plant and animal life of a particular region.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology The living
organisms of aregion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun all the plant and animal life of a particular region
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The biota is generally considered derived from hygrophilous tropical warm level stock as well as Andean elements that arrived through the eastern mountain range of Colombia in particular and others with more affinity to the Andes of Mérida and the mountain range on the Venezuelan coast.
Santa Marta páramo 2008
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So it's a very different kind of biota that would have been in these lagoons or near-shore deposits, near-shore areas 36 million years ago.
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So it's a very different kind of biota that would have been in these lagoons or near-shore deposits, near-shore areas 36 million years ago.
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So it's a very different kind of biota that would have been in these lagoons or near-shore deposits, near-shore areas 36 million years ago.
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So it's a very different kind of biota that would have been in these lagoons or near-shore deposits, near-shore areas 36 million years ago.
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Our mission was to survey the unique biota of the islands, which had just received official conservation status from the Malagasy government.
Dr. Terry Gosliner: From Beautiful Nudibranchs to Coral Graveyards: Marine Research in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (PHOTOS) Dr. Terry Gosliner 2010
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Our mission was to survey the unique biota of the islands, which had just received official conservation status from the Malagasy government.
Dr. Terry Gosliner: From Beautiful Nudibranchs to Coral Graveyards: Marine Research in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (PHOTOS) Dr. Terry Gosliner 2010
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Our mission was to survey the unique biota of the islands, which had just received official conservation status from the Malagasy government.
Dr. Terry Gosliner: From Beautiful Nudibranchs to Coral Graveyards: Marine Research in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (PHOTOS) Dr. Terry Gosliner 2010
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Our mission was to survey the unique biota of the islands, which had just received official conservation status from the Malagasy government.
Dr. Terry Gosliner: From Beautiful Nudibranchs to Coral Graveyards: Marine Research in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (PHOTOS) Dr. Terry Gosliner 2010
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Our mission was to survey the unique biota of the islands, which had just received official conservation status from the Malagasy government.
Dr. Terry Gosliner: From Beautiful Nudibranchs to Coral Graveyards: Marine Research in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (PHOTOS) Dr. Terry Gosliner 2010
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