Relating to or requiring air and oxygen; describing organisms that depend on aerobic respiration.
From aero- (air) + -bian (from bios, life) + -an (adjective suffix); parallel to 'aerobic' but less commonly used in modern science.
This is a somewhat archaic term that herbarium labels and older biology textbooks occasionally use — it means the same as 'aerobic' but sounds even more stuffy and Latin-inflected, which is why modern scientists just say 'aerobic.'
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