bionomics — index ecology Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
bionomics — [bī΄ō näm′iks] n. [< bionomy, ecology (< BIO + NOMY) + ICS] ECOLOGY (sense 1) … English World dictionary
Bionomics — In ecology, bionomics (Greek: bio = life; nomos = law) is the comprehensive study of an organism and its relation to its environment Translated from the French word Bionomie first use in English in 1885 1890. Today we call it, ecology .#… … Wikipedia
bionomics — n. The merger of biological and economic theory. Example Citation: Michael Rothschild, a business consultant, argued in a 1990 book, Bionomics: Economy as Ecosystem, [sic] that it was time to stop thinking of economics as if it followed… … New words
bionomics — n. study of relations of living organisms to environment; ecology. ♦ bionomic, a. ♦ bionomist, n. student of bionomics … Dictionary of difficult words
bionomics — noun plural but singular or plural in construction Etymology: bionomic, adjective, probably from French bionomique, from bionomie ecology, from bi + nomie nomy Date: 1888 ecology • bionomic adjective … New Collegiate Dictionary
bionomics — the relation of an organism or a population to the environment and its organisms … Dictionary of ichthyology
bionomics — see ecology … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
bionomics — bionomic, bionomical, adj. bionomically, adv. bionomist /buy on euh mist/, n. /buy euh nom iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) ecology (def. 1). [1885 90; BIO + nomics, prob. on the model of ECONOMICS; see NOMY, ICS] * * * … Universalium
bionomics — 1. SYN: bionomy. 2. SYN: ecology. * * * bi·o·nom·ics .bī ə näm iks n pl but sing or pl in constr ECOLOGY (1){{}}(2) bi·o·nom·ic ik or bi·o·nom·i·cal i kəl adj bi·o·nom·i·cal·ly i k(ə … Medical dictionary