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# biology

noun (biology)

«biology» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Biology is the study of living things, like plants, animals and people, and how they live and grow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#m1)
2. The biology of a living thing is how its body works. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#m2)

### In the lessons

a school subject in the story; class sizes, books or test scores; part of science with chemistry and physics; phrases «biology class», «biology teacher», «marine biology» (sea life)

### Examples

- 24 students take biology. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x1)
- She scored 88 on her biology test. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x2)
- The biology book has 300 pages. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x3)
- The biology class has 5 more students than chemistry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x4)
- In biology we learned about cells. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x5)
- She wants to study marine biology. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x6)
- Biology tells us how plants make food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x7)
- The biology lab has microscopes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x8)
- He likes biology more than physics. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x9)
- We looked at frog eggs in biology. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x10)

### Note

A word of the story only; it names the group or subject. «Bio» means life and «-logy» means study of. A person who studies it is a biologist.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «biology» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«biology» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/biology.html) on Mova free.