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biogeny (n.)[biogeny 词源字典]: 1870, "biogenesis;" see biogenic. As "history of the evolution of an organism," 1879.[biogeny etymology, biogeny origin, 英语词源]
biogeography (n.): also bio-geography, 1892, from bio- + geography. Related: Biogeographical.
biographer (n.): 1715; see biography + -er (1). Earlier was biographist (1660s).
Of every great and eminent character, part breaks forth into public view, and part lies hid in domestic privacy. Those qualities which have been exerted in any known and lasting performances may, at any distance of time, be traced and estimated; but silent excellencies are soon forgotten; and those minute peculiarities which discriminate every man from all others, if the are not recorded by those whom personal knowledge enabled to observe them, are irrecoverably lost. [Johnson, "Life of Sir Thomas Browne," 1756]
biographical (adj.): 1738; see biography + -ical. Related: Biographically.
biography (n.): 1680s, probably from Latin biographia, from Late Greek biographia "description of life," from Greek bio- "life" (see bio-) + graphia "record, account" (see -graphy). Biographia was not in classical Greek (bios alone was the word for it), though it is attested in later Greek from c.500.
biohazard (n.): also bio-hazard, 1973, from bio- + hazard (n.).
biological (adj.): 1840, from biology + -ical. Biological clock attested from 1955; not especially of human reproductive urges until c. 1991. Related: Biologically.
biologist (n.): 1813, from biology + -ist. Earliest use is in reference to human life. In modern scientific sense, by 1874.
biology (n.): 1819, from Greek bios "life" (see bio-) + -logy. Suggested 1802 by German naturalist Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776-1837), and introduced as a scientific term that year in French by Lamarck.
bioluminescence (n.): also bio-luminescence, 1909; see bio- + luminescence.
bioluminescent (adj.): also bio-luminescent, 1929; see bioluminescence.
biomass (n.): also bio-mass, c. 1980, from bio- + mass (n.1).
biome (n.): 1908, from Greek bios (see bio-) + -ome.
biomechanics (n.): also bio-mechanics, 1933, "study of the action of forces on the body," from bio- + mechanic (also see -ics). Earlier (1924) as a term in Russian theater, from Russian biomekhanika (1921).
biomedical (adj.): also bio-medical, 1961, from bio- + medical.
biometric (adj.): 1888, from bio- + -metric.
biometrics (n.): "application of mathematics to biology," 1902, from biometric (also see -ics); slightly earlier in this sense was biometry (1901), which was coined by Whewell and used by him and others with a sense of "calculation of life expectancy" (1831).
biometry (n.): see biometrics.
biomorphic (adj.): 1895, from bio- + Greek morphe "form" (see Morpheus) + -ic.
bionic (adj.): 1901, as a term in the study of fossils, from Greek. bios "life" (see bio-). Meaning "pertaining to bionics" is recorded from 1963. Popular sense of "superhumanly gifted or durable" is from 1976, from popular U.S. television program "The Bionic Man" and its spin-offs.