mātauranga koiora
1. (noun) biology.
E tohu ana ngā taunakitanga katoa – ngā taonga i mahue mai, ngā hononga i waenganui i ngā reo, ngā mātauranga koiora, ngā tāhū kōrero – ki te mea ko Poronihia ki te rāwhiti te kāinga tūturu o te Māori (Te Ara 2011). / All the available evidence of artefacts, similarities of languages, biology and tradition suggests that eastern Polynesia was the Māori homeland.
kaimātai
1. (noun) -ologist, specialist - usually followed by a modifier, e.g. kaimātai kararehe (zoologist), kaimātai koiora (biologist).
Ko te matatika koiora te āta tirotiro i ngā take ka hua mai i ngā kaupapa e whāia ana e ngā kaimātai koiora (RP 2009:280). / Bioethics is the study of issues arising from advances in the biological sciences.
