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单词 bioengineer
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bioengineern.

Brit. /ˌbʌɪəʊˌɛn(d)ʒᵻˈnɪə/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˌɛndʒəˈnɪ(ə)r/, /ˌbaɪoʊˈɛndʒənɪ(ə)r/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bio- comb. form, engineer n.
Etymology: < bio- comb. form + engineer n.
A person who approaches biology from the point of view of an engineer; an expert or specialist in bioengineering.
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the world > life > biology > study > person who studies > [noun] > biology > branches of
micrographer1668
micrologist1855
biophysicist1860
microbiologist1885
phenologist1888
biometrician1901
biometricist1902
bug chaser1911
psychobiologist1914
biotechnologist1920
sociobiologist1920
bioengineer1931
biotechnician1940
developmental biologist1940
neurobiologist1942
radiobiologist1946
virologist1946
photobiologist1958
prebiologist1963
mycoplasmologist1966
chronobiologist1976
genomicist1995
1931 G. A. Dorsey Man's Own Show xiii. 766 Biology today is a science... It knows its materials, its energies... What the bioengineer can do, no one yet knows.
1960 Appl. Microbiol. 8 122/1 The real problem may exist near the cell surfaces where flow..may depend upon capillary action. Herein may lie one of the real challenges for the bioengineer.
1994 New Scientist 15 Oct. (Future Suppl.) 19/2 Marine bioengineers are creating giant plankton farms..round the entire coast of Antarctica.
2006 New Yorker 9 Jan. 45/3 Even if bioengineers can grow hair..he doubts that they'll get it to grow in the right shape, thickness, or direction anytime soon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bioengineerv.

Brit. /ˌbʌɪəʊˌɛn(d)ʒᵻˈnɪə/, U.S. /ˌbaɪoʊˌɛndʒəˈnɪ(ə)r/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bio- comb. form, engineer v.
Etymology: < bio- comb. form + engineer v., after bioengineer n., bioengineering n. Compare earlier bioengineered adj.
transitive. Originally: to design or construct using biological principles. Later chiefly: to produce or modify (a substance, organism, etc.) using the techniques of bioengineering, esp. genetic engineering.
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1971 Y. Pomeranz & J. A. Shellenberger Bread Sci. & Technol. i. 5 The most recent introduction has been production of bread by a continuous process, which was ‘bioengineered’ primarily in the United States.
1974 A. Disteche in E. D. Goldberg Sea V. ii. 118 Not much is understood about how animals living at great depth are ‘bio-engineered’ to compensate or adapt to the ionization shifts induced by the pressure.
1984 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 17 Dec. The new approach can be likened to a geneticist trying to bio-engineer a cucumber so that it ripens into a pickle.
1994 P. R. Boehlke in R. B. Ashmore & W. C. Starr Teaching Ethics iv. 48 Scientists have discovered how to bioengineer the production of human growth hormone.
1995 Economist 18 Nov. 115/2 Even Toyota, a car maker, is trying to bio-engineer trees that absorb pollution.
2002 Wired Nov. 182/2 It's a scenario Andrew Niccol imagined in his 1997 film, Gattaca, where embryos in a not-too-distant future are bioengineered for perfection.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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