bioinspired

adjective

bio·in·spired | \ ¦bī-(ˌ)ō-ˌin-¦spīrd

, -¦spī-ərd \

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