Definition of "bio-" []

• Life; living organism: biome. (prefix)
• Biology; biological: biophysics. (prefix)

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• "When she lost her job at Pennzoil back in 2000, it took her seven months to find a new one at Quintiles, a bio- and pharmaceutical-services company."
• "The new agreement continues to ban shipments of soy-whey products and bio- solids to the recycling facilities, and will prohibit soils contaminated with more than 500 parts per million of petroleum hydrocarbons."
• "Once a small Japanese pharmaceutical corp, Aikida was now the largest bio- and gen-tech corp in the world, with global headquarters in Chindia and a major presence in every developed country except the United States."