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exobiology

noun

Etymology

From exo- + biology, coined by American molecular biologist Joshua Lederberg.

  1. borrowed from biologia
  2. prefixed as exobiology — “exo + biology”

Definitions

  1. The branch of biology dealing with exolife

    The branch of biology dealing with exolife: (putative or predicted) extraterrestrial lifeforms (those originating from planets other than Earth).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for exobiology. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA