Biotic

Definition: Biotic

Biotic

Adjective

1. Of or relating to living organisms.

Etymology: Biotic \Bi*ot"ic\, adjective. [Greek expression pert. to life.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Biotic

Domain	Definitions
Biology & Biotechnology	Pertaining to living organisms in their ecological rather than their physiological relations. Source: European Union. (references)
Environment	Living organisms in ecosystems. Source: European Union. (references)
Weather	Living. Living organisms make up the biotic parts of ecosystems. See abiotic. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Biotic

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Biotic refers to a factor in the environment that is alive, such as animals, plants, and bacteria.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Biotic."

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Crosswords: Biotic

English words defined with "biotic": biome, biotic community. (references)

Specialty definitions using "biotic": Abiotic ♦ biotic potential ♦ Ecological Indicator ♦ Landscape ecology ♦ mimicking symptoms ♦ phenology. (references)

Etymologies containing "biotic": Photobiotic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Biotic

Domain	Title
Books	Biotic Feedbacks in the Global Climatic System: Will the Warming Feed the Warming? (reference) Biotic Interactions in Recent and Fossil Benthic Communities (reference) Biotic Regulation of the Environment: Key Issue of Global Change (Springer-Praxis Books in Environmental Sciences) (reference) Biotic Stress and Yield Loss (reference) Inselbergs: Biotic Diversity of Isolated Rock Outcrops in Tropical and Temperate Regions (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Biotic

"Biotic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Biotic" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	52	47,145

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Biotic

Expressions using "biotic": biotic community ♦ biotic potential. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "biotic": anti-biotic, pre-biotic.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Biotic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
biotic	22	biotic coast gulf technology,huntsville texas	3
biotic factor	20	biotic factor forest rain tropical	3
abiotic biotic factor	9	advocare biotic buddy	3
abiotic biotic	7	biotic component	3
biotic diet macro	6	biotic history	3
pro biotic	6	abiotic biotic vs	2
biotic silver	5	anti biotic	2
biotic potential	4	biotic nutri	2
biotic message	3	biotic index	2
biotic macro	3	abiotic biotic factor tundra	2
biotic diet micro	3	pro biotic acidophilus	2
biotic definition	3	abiotic biome biotic factor marine	2
		abiotic aquatic biotic environment	2
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Modern Translations: Biotic

Language		Translations for "biotic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�"�物 (Biologic, Biological, Biologically, Biology, Creature, critter). (various references)

Danish		biotisk. (various references)

Dutch		biotisch. (various references)

Finnish		bioottinen. (various references)

French		biotique. (various references)

German		biotisch. (various references)

Greek		βιοτικός. (various references)

Hungarian		természetes klimax (biotic climax), biotikus klimax (biotic climax). (various references)

Italian		biotico. (various references)

Pig Latin		ioticbay

Portuguese		biótico, biótica. (various references)

Spanish		biótico, biótica. (various references)

Swedish		biotisk. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Biotic

Derivations
	Words beginning with "biotic": biotical, biotics. (additional references)
	Words ending with "biotic": abiotic, antibiotic, endobiotic, endosymbiotic, gnotobiotic, macrobiotic, nonantibiotic, parabiotic, prebiotic, symbiotic, xenobiotic. (additional references)
	Words containing "biotic": abiotically, antibiotically, antibiotics, gnotobiotically, nonantibiotics, parabiotically, symbiotically, xenobiotics. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Biotic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Banotti, betic, bifteck, biftek, biodic, Biodiv, bioic, biopic, bioptic, Biorich, Biotab, biotce, biote, biotec, bioteck, Biotecx, Biotex, biotice, Bitci, Bitolia, Bostik, botik, bozovic, brittic, britvic, diotic, miotic, nilotica. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Biotic"

Words rhyming with "biotic" (pronounced 'Bi*ot"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Biotic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-i-i-o-t"
	-2 letters: obit, otic.
	-3 letters: bio, bit, bot, cob, cot, obi, tic.
	-4 letters: bi, bo, it, ti, to.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-i-i-o-t"
	+1 letter: abiotic, biontic, bioptic, biotics.
	+2 letters: bioethic, biolytic, biotical, biotitic, biotypic, bistroic, fibrotic.
	+3 letters: albinotic, bibliotic, bijection, bioactive, bioethics, biometric, bisection, cenobitic, prebiotic, symbiotic.
	+4 letters: abdication, antibiotic, bentonitic, bibliotics, bijections, bilocation, biochemist, bioethical, biogenetic, biometrics, bisections, bronchitic, bronchitis, cohabiting, endobiotic, fiberoptic, iceboating, incubation, parabiotic, xenobiotic.
	+5 letters: abdications, abiotically, antibiotics, bacteriocin, batholithic, bellicosity, benediction, bibliotheca, biconcavity, biconvexity, bifurcation, bilocations, bioactivity, biochemists, bioclimatic, bioelectric, bioethicist, biologistic, biometrical, biorhythmic, bisectional, bootlicking, brachiation, brecciation, calibration, coilability, combination, combinative, fabrication, fiberoptics, fibrocystic, fibronectin, gnotobiotic, iceboatings, idioblastic, imbrication, incubations, lubrication, macrobiotic, nondiabetic, objectified, objectifies, objectivism, objectivist, objectivity, obscenities, obscurities, obstinacies, outbitching, outclimbing, publication, rubrication, sociability, symbolistic, xenobiotics.
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