BIOTA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

All the plant and animal life of a particular region

Synonyms:

biology; biota

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("biota" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Meronyms (members of "biota"):

fauna; zoology (all the animal life in a particular region or period)

botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)