ethnobiology

ethnobiology
ethnobiological /eth'noh buy'euh loj"i keuhl/, adj.ethnobiologist, n.
/eth'noh buy ol"euh jee/, n. Anthropol.
1. the scientific study of the way plants and animals are treated or used by different human cultures.
2. the doctrine that cultural behavior is determined biologically, as by race: no longer in technical use.
[ETHNO- + BIOLOGY]

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