bio-

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🔊/baɪəʊ/, 🔊/baɪə/, 🔊/baɪˈɒ/
🔊/baɪəʊ/, 🔊/baɪə/, 🔊/baɪˈɑː/
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  1. (in nouns, adjectives and adverbs构成名词、形容词和副词) connected with living things or human life生物的;人生的
    • biodegradable可生物降解的
    • biography传记
    Word Originfrom Greek bios ‘(course of) human life’. The sense is extended in modern science to mean ‘organic life’.