BIOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biome mean? 

• BIOME (noun)
  The noun BIOME has 1 sense:

1. a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate

  Familiarity information: BIOME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIOME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("biome" is a kind of...):

biotic community; community ((ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biome"):

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

grassland (land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life)

forest; timber; timberland; woodland (land that is covered with trees and shrubs)

 Context examples 

One of the country's least studied biomes, the caatinga stretches across ten Brazilian states and encompasses ten percent of the country's national territory, with 844 thousand square km.

(Brazilian savanna unprotected, study finds, Agência Brasil)

Deforestation rates from other cities in southern Bahia considered, like Porto Seguro and Ilhéus, some 30% of the biome was destroyed during the period in the region.

(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)

The deforestation of the Atlantic Forest, Brazil's second most important forest, grew 57.7% in a year, from 2015 to 2016, when the biome lost 29,075 hectares, or 29 thousand football fields.

(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)

It is the only biome found exclusively in Brazil, and it is usually known by its appearance in times of drought, when trees shed their leaves, the woods turn gray and the vegetation brittle.

(Brazilian savanna unprotected, study finds, Agência Brasil)

Illegal occupation of land, deforestation, and monitoring efforts were some of the problems detected during the three years of research by the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation (FUNDAJ) in 14 of the country's Federal Conservation Units of Total Protection, located in the caatinga—a biome often referred to as the Brazilian savanna.

(Brazilian savanna unprotected, study finds, Agência Brasil)