— 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 ]