biota

1. 1.

   all the plant and animal life of a particular region

   Synonymsbiology

   Broadercollection

Other forms of biota

plural

biotas·

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 biota

What does biota mean?

biota means "all the plant and animal life of a particular region".

How many syllables are in biota?

biota has 3 syllables: bi-o-ta. The stress falls on "bi".

What is another word for biota?

Close synonyms include 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 biota a common word?

biota 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.