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# biology

«biology» in Mova's school dictionary: **the study of living things, like plants, animals and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (biology)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Biology is the study of living things, like plants, animals and people, and how they live and grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#m1)

2) The biology of a living thing is how its body works. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a school subject in the story; class sizes, books or test scores; part of science with chemistry and physics; phrases «biology class», «biology teacher», «marine biology» (sea life)

### examples

- 24 students take biology. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x1)
- She scored 88 on her biology test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x2)
- The biology book has 300 pages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x3)
- The biology class has 5 more students than chemistry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x4)
- In biology we learned about cells. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x5)
- She wants to study marine biology. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x6)
- Biology tells us how plants make food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x7)
- The biology lab has microscopes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x8)
- He likes biology more than physics. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x9)
- We looked at frog eggs in biology. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/#x10)

### note

A word of the story only; it names the group or subject. «Bio» means life and «-logy» means study of. A person who studies it is a biologist.

### In the corpora

- [Real hedgehogs walk slowly and can trot, but cannot race; Sonic was named for speed, not for biology.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right/15/)
- [So the zodiac is a good way to learn real biology: enjoy the legend, then ask what the real animal is like.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/382-the-chinese-zodiac-the-twelve-real-animals-behind-the-signs/6/)
- [Counting is a superpower in biology.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/1/)
- [Real biology: camels really do eat thorny desert plants; their tough lips and mouths are not hurt by the thorns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/75-justso-camel-hump/19/)
- [In teenagers the body clock shifts later, so they feel sleepy late and hate mornings: partly biology, not just laziness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/127-sleep-and-the-body-clock/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «biology» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biology/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.