BIOLOGICAL GROUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biological group mean? 

• BIOLOGICAL GROUP (noun)
  The noun BIOLOGICAL GROUP has 1 sense:

1. a group of plants or animals

  Familiarity information: BIOLOGICAL GROUP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIOLOGICAL GROUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of plants or animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("biological group" is a kind of...):

group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biological group"):

genotype (a group of organisms sharing a specific genetic constitution)

clade (a group of biological taxa or species that share features inherited from a common ancestor)

taxon; taxonomic category; taxonomic group (animal or plant group having natural relations)

animal group (a group of animals)

colony (a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together)

division ((biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category)

generation (group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent)

descendants; posterity (all of the offspring of a given progenitor)