bioneer

plural bioneers

1. neologismA biological pioneer, an inventer of environmental solutions and biotechnology; a crafter of creative solutions to environmental and sociocultural problems.

   A high environmental impact of an industry significantly reduces the likelihood of a firm to be classified as a bioneer or ecopreneur.

   2009, Gary D. Libecap, Frontiers in Eco-Entrepreneurship Research, →ISBN, page 140

2. literatureA biological engineer, an engineer of creatures, especially partially artificial/mechanical ones.

   Beneath the coat, a metal frame of gears and levers and wheels: living bone, tendon, sinew holding it together. A bioneer’s wet dream.

   2002, Trent Jamieson, Garry Nurrish, Redsine, 7, →ISBN, page 13

present singular third person bioneers · participle present bioneering · participle past bioneered · past bioneered

1. neologismTo pioneer biologically.

   The only thing you can truly say, and I think this is a very safe statement, is if you can't figure out how to bioneer, bioneer with a b, you're not going anywhere.

   2006, John Logan, NASA physician, at the Space Frontier Foundation's "New Space Return to the Moon Conference" (2006): Panel SFF1484 at 1:15:25

2. literatureTo engineer biologically.

   Devon scowled. "This is clever bioneering. A muttie that dies before it lives."

   2002, Trent Jamieson, Garry Nurrish, Redsine, 7, →ISBN, page 11

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   Lost beneath her abundant flesh was a vestigial skeleton which floated disconnected and unmoving in a gelatinous sea. Her bioneered organs were swollen to immense proportions and hundreds of liters of blood pumped through her extensive circulatory system.

   1975, Thomas F. Monteleone, edited by Roger Elwood, Dystopian visions, page 3

   […] an open space that would not have been possible a millennium earlier, before the development of sophisticated bioneering.

   2002, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., The Octagonal Raven, →ISBN, page 90

   The cows were bioneered so urbs could have fresh milk, laced with graces — vitamins and serums conveyed in compact, pet-like packages. Even their shit is boutiqued. It falls in uniform pellets and smells like Zen.

   2007, Peter Jay Shippy, How to build the ghost in your attic: a book-length poem, page 21