biotech
noun/ˈbaɪoʊtɛk/
Frequency rank: #11,021 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
short for biotechnology; the use of living systems and organisms to develop products, especially in medicine and agriculture.
Example sentence
She landed her dream job at a small startup in the biotech industry that develops new medicines using gene editing.
Synonyms & related words
- biotechnology
- bioscience
- genomics
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