BIOLOGICAL CLOCK
Dictionary entry overview: What does biological clock mean? • BIOLOGICAL CLOCK (noun)
The noun BIOLOGICAL CLOCK has 1 sense:
1. an innate mechanism in living organisms that controls the periodicity of many physiological functions
Familiarity information: BIOLOGICAL CLOCK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BIOLOGICAL CLOCK (noun)
Meaning:
An innate mechanism in living organisms that controls the periodicity of many physiological functions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("biological clock" is a kind of...):
mechanism (a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function)
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