non-bio product
- noun
- UK
:
producto no biológico
- Many parents choose non-bio products for washing their baby's clothes.
Examples
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Doctors often recommend non-bio products for people with sensitive skin.
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Supermarkets stock a wide variety of non-bio products alongside regular detergents.
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This soap is a non-bio product.
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I prefer using non-bio products for my laundry.
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Doctors often recommend non-bio products for people with sensitive skin.
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Many parents choose non-bio products for washing their baby's clothes.
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Supermarkets stock a wide variety of non-bio products alongside regular detergents.
How Biological
- Specialized
4
4.2
- Specialized
1
4.4
- UK
- Specialized
6
5.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
non-bio + product
The term is a simple negative composition: non- (not) + bio (biological) + product, so it denotes a product that is not biological or lacks biological (e.g., enzymatic) components. This follows common negation + noun patterns found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent parts would be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Non-bio product comes from shop labels where 'bio' showed a detergent had natural helpers called enzymes to remove stains, so non-bio meant it did not. So a non-bio product is a soap or detergent made 'without enzymes', which is why people choose it when they want something 'gentler on the skin'.