astrobiology

1. 1.

   the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life

   Synonymsexobiologyspace biology

   Broaderbiology

Other forms of astrobiology

plural

astrobiologies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about astrobiology

What does astrobiology mean?

astrobiology means "the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life".

How many syllables are in astrobiology?

astrobiology has 6 syllables: a-stro-bi-o-lo-gy. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for astrobiology?

Close synonyms include exobiology, space biology. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is astrobiology a common word?

astrobiology is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.