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单词 biota
释义 biota Ecol.|baɪˈəʊtə|
[mod.L.: cf. Gr. βιοτή life.]
A collective term for the animal and plant life of a region.
1901L. Stejneger in Amer. Naturalist XXXV. 89 The author, like many other writers..has felt the need of a comprehensive term to include both fauna and flora which will..designate the total of animal and plant life of a given region or period..also any treatise upon the animals and plants of any geographical area... As such a term I would suggest Biota.1939Nature 25 Mar. 504/2 In Natal, the population [of animals and algæ] consists partly of ‘Cape’ species, but a high percentage of the biota belongs to the great tropical Indo-West-Pacific group, and includes reef corals and many species which characteristically inhabit coral reefs.1957Ibid. 4 May 892/2 The need for planned observational work on the airborne biota still remains.
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