bio·in·spired
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Definition of bioinspired
: inspired by or based on biological structures or processes
The goal is to improve modeling and simulation of the biological system to attain a better understanding of the wing's critical structural features for use in future bioinspired designs. — Aerospace America, December 2011 Making bioinspired materials has been a popular notion of research for some time, but achieving such complexity through synthetic techniques offers considerable challenges.— David Filmore, Today's Chemist At Work, April 2003
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“Bioinspired.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bioinspired. Accessed 8 Mar. 2021.
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The first known use of bioinspired was in 1992
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