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Adjective
biontic (not comparable)
- (biology, rare) Relating to an individual organism.
1988, Keith Stewart Thomson, Morphogenesis and Evolution, page 20:The complete and accurate repetition of phyletic by biontic development is obliterated and abbreviated by secondary contraction, as ontogeny strikes out for itself an ever straighter course; accordingly, the repetition is the more complete the longer the series of young stages successively passed through.
2000, R. L. Kitching, Food Webs and Container Habitats, page 44:There is no need to clutter the literature with more long Germanic compounds: suffice it to say that referring to the organism/habitat relationship as biontic, philic or xenic summarises the above arguments succinctly.
- (obsolete or nonstandard) Biological.
- Misspelling of biotic.
1993, M. J. Baker, Grasslands for Our World, page 508:Soil contains biontic and abiontic lipids.
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