Meanings
- uncountableagricultureBiodynamic agricultural practices considerably overlapping with other methods of organic farming but also involving certain ideological notions of mystical nature.
Marc Kreydenweiss, an Alsatian producer, is a champion of biodynamics, an extreme form of organic agriculture based on the planets’ positions.
2007 September 30, Howard G. Goldberg, “A Red to Pour With Burgers”, in New York Times1 more example
I had heard that a cool cosmetic company, Dr. Hauschka, used biodynamically grown botanicals, and something about the teetotaling founder of the Waldorf Schools, philosopher Rudolph Steiner, who had also founded biodynamics and died in the 1920s. But several of the wines I'd already earmarked as winners turned out to be made either purely or in part with biodynamics.
2009, Alice Feiring, The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization, HMH, →ISBN
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷeyh₃-
- Ancient Greekβῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
- Ancient Greekβῐο- (bĭo-)
- Englishbio-
- Proto-Indo-European*dewh₂-
- Proto-Hellenic*dunamai
- Ancient Greekδῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
- Ancient Greekδύναμις (dúnamis)
- Ancient Greekδυναμικός (dunamikós)
- Frenchdynamique
- Englishdynamic
- Englishdynamics
- Englishbiodynamics
Translations
Polish biodynamika
- biodynamikaagriculture
Cite this entry
biodynamics. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biodynamics
“biodynamics.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biodynamics. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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