bioticaladj.
/bʌɪˈɒtɪkl/, U.S. /baɪˈɑdɪk(ə)l/ Biology. Now rare.
= biotic adj. 2.
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the world > life > [adjective]
beastlyc1384
biotical1869
biotic1891
1869 S. W. Davis in Health Reformer (Battle Creek, Mich.) Apr. 183 One of the most obvious arrangements of natural phenomena is that which classes them into Chemical, Mechanical, and Living, or Biotical... Life, Vital or Biotical Action, is the action of an organized being.
1882 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 168 The phenomena of irritability, assimilation, growth, and reproduction, which we may comprehensively designate as biotical.
1988 E. Mayr Toward New Philos. Biol. xxvi. 470 Selection pressures in an incessantly changing physical and biotical environment would seem inducive to continuing evolutionary change.
2005 Internat. Biodeterioration & Biodegradation 55 175/2 Soft-rot decomposition can occur in woods with high content of tannins and other compounds resistant to biotical attack.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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