sociobiological en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English sociobiology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English sociobiological From sociobiology + -ical.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to sociobiology
a sociobiological study
It was a long-running mystery as to whether the volus should be considered monogendered like the asari, multi-gendered, or some entirely different sociobiological paradigm. The volus mostly seemed to consider the question both intrusive and hilariously irrelevant.
2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 6, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 107–108: