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bi•o
Pronunciation: (bī'ō), [key]
—n., pl. bi•os,
—adj.
Informal.
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n.
1. biography.
2. biology.
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adj.
1. biographical.
2. biological:
a bio control service using praying mantises to reduce the population of garden pests. bio-
a combining form meaning “life” occurring in loanwords from Greek (
biography); on this model, used in the formation of compound words (
bioluminescence).
Also, esp. before a vowel,bi-.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.