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Xenobiology

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I have to inform you that the word "xenobiology" has been used with a completely-different meaning -- an important one -- ever since the 1940s, and it is peculiar to use the same word for something trivial and more recent.
"Xenobiology" has many known derived forms, too, including "xenobiologist" and "xenobiological".
There is no need to trample on these, either.47.215.211.115 (talk) 08:40, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

refs for the older meanings? Jytdog (talk) 08:52, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
There are two sources in the references section for this article! However, they are the exception. Xenobiology does seem to have been used occasionally in serious science (another example is this article, but is used much more often in fiction (see the synonym, Xenology). There are enough examples that the alternative meaning should also be mentioned. RockMagnetist (DCO visiting scholar) (talk) 23:51, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]