biomanipulation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
the deliberate alteration of an ecosystem by adding or removing species, especially predators
Countable; Uncountable
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os) Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der. English bio- English manipulation English biomanipulation From bio- + manipulation.