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biota
noun[ U or plural ]
environment specializeduk /baɪˈəʊ.tə/ us /baɪˈoʊ.t̬ə/
the animals and plants living in a particular place, time, or habitat(= one type of natural environment): 生物群，某地区（或时期）的动植物
Scientists will try to determine what effects the chemical pollutants have on soil biota.科学家们将尝试确定化学污染物对土壤生物群有什么影响。
One issue is the possible transfer of foreign biota to other rivers and lakes affected by the outlet.
Fragile flora and river biota can be unwittingly destroyed in the zeal to experience the great outdoors.
More than half of the large mammal biota of the Americas disappeared in a cataclysmic extinction wave at the very end of the Pleistocene Era.
He instantly loved Madagascar's warm, Afro-Asian culture and exotic biota.
A 2015 biota study found no major invasive species in the lake.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Plants & animals - general words
animal kingdom
anti-parasitic
autotroph
biped
bloodsucker
esculent
family
fauna
flora
flora and fauna
migrant
natively
non-mammalian
non-placental
omnivore
ruminant
scavenger
secondary consumer
songster
terrestrially
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