biota

See also: Biota

English

Etymology

From New Latin biota, from Ancient Greek βιοτή (biotḗ), from βίος (bíos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪˈəʊtə/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊtə

Noun

biota (plural biotas)

1. (ecology) The living organisms of a region.
   • 2009 February 6, Andrew Z. Krug et al., “Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota”, in Science‎, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 767–771:

     Although the broad macroevolutionary consequences of mass extinctions are well known (as in the dinosaurs-mammals changeover), their long-term effects on the temporal and spatial dynamics of clades and biotas are rarely investigated.

2. A coniferous tree, Oriental arborvitae (Platycladus orientalis, syn. Biota orientalis).

Derived terms

• epibiota
• macrobiota
• microbiota
• mycobiota
• paleobiota

Translations

the living organisms of a region

Chinese: Mandarin: 生物群 (zh) (shēngwùqún), 生物相 (zh) (shēngwùxiāng), 地方生物誌 / 地方生物志 (dìfāng shēngwùzhì) Finnish: biota, eliöstö French: biote (fr) m German: Biota f Greek: βιόκοσμος (el) m (viókosmos) Hungarian: bióta (hu) Italian: biota (it) Occitan: biòta f Portuguese: biota (pt)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjota/ [ˈbjo.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: bio‧ta

Noun

biota f (plural biotas)

1. biota

Further reading

• “biota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Venetan

Adjective

biota

1. feminine singular of bioto