Relating to or living in air; requiring oxygen for life; essentially synonymous with aerobic.
From aero- (air) + -bious (from bios, life) + -ous (adjective suffix); an older adjectival form less common in modern scientific usage.
Aerobious is like finding a fossil word in scientific literature — it means the same as 'aerobic,' but uses a different suffix pattern (-bious instead of -bic). Language evolves, and simpler forms usually win out!
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