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BIOLOGICAL GROUP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of plants or animals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("biological group" is a kind of...):
group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biological group"):
genotype (a group of organisms sharing a specific genetic constitution)
clade (a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor)
taxon; taxonomic category; taxonomic group (animal or plant group having natural relations)
animal group (a group of animals)
colony (a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together)
division ((biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category)
generation (group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent)
descendants; posterity (all of the offspring of a given progenitor)
