biontic
adj- 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.1988, Keith Stewart Thomson, Morphogenesis and Evolution, page 20:
- 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.2000, R. L. Kitching, Food Webs and Container Habitats, page 44:
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Nonstandard, Obsolete Biological.
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Misspelling Misspelling of biotic.
- Soil contains biontic and abiontic lipids.1993, M. J. Baker, Grasslands for Our World, page 508: