There are two kinds of dictionaries - monolingual and bilingual. A German-German dictionary is a German monolingual dictionary. It means that all words are explained in German. Below you can see an example item from a monolingual German dictionary.

die Biologie [biolo'gi:]; -: Wissenschaft vom Leben der Pflanzen, Tiere und Menschen: sie unterrichtet Mathematik und Biologie; er hat Biologie studiert.Zus.: Meeresbiologie, Mikrobiologie.

Compare with an analogous item from a bilingual German-English dictionary.

die Biologie [biolo'gi:]; biology.

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