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BIOTA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
All the plant and animal life of a particular region
Synonyms:
biology; biota
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("biota" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Meronyms (members of "biota"):
fauna; zoology (all the animal life in a particular region or period)
botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)
