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AEROBIOSIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does aerobiosis mean?
• AEROBIOSIS (noun)
The noun AEROBIOSIS has 1 sense:
1. life sustained in the presence of air or oxygen
Familiarity information: AEROBIOSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Life sustained in the presence of air or oxygen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("aerobiosis" is a kind of...):
life (the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones)
Derivation:
aerobiotic (living or active only in the presence of oxygen)
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