ENVIRONMENTALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does environmentally mean? 

• ENVIRONMENTALLY (adverb)
  The adverb ENVIRONMENTALLY has 1 sense:

1. for the environment

  Familiarity information: ENVIRONMENTALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENVIRONMENTALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

For the environment

Context example:

the new recycling policy is environmentally safe

Pertainym:

environmental (concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment)

 Context examples 

An environmentally produced phenotype simulating the effect of a particular genotype.

(Phenocopy, NCI Thesaurus)

Palm oil production can be made less environmentally destructive by reducing the use of fertilisers and avoid using herbicides.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)

Though water may be plentiful, previously-explored methods are complex and require environmentally harmful solvents and massive amounts of energy to produce the needed catalysts at a large scale.

(Promising new solar-powered path to hydrogen fuel production, National Science Foundation)

Pepper grafting could become an environmentally friendly adaptation strategy, says Angeles Calatayud, a researcher at the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias in Valencia, Spain, and co-author of the paper.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)

This demand is expected to be met mainly by using air conditioning, which is costly and environmentally damaging.

(Billions at risk from heat stress at home, SciDev.Net)

Environmentally, formaldehyde may be found in the atmosphere, smoke from fires, automobile exhaust and cigarette smoke.

(Formaldehyde, NCI Thesaurus)

Bolstering cacao's resistance to disease is the most efficient and environmentally friendly approach for disease management, Guiltinan said.

(New way to identify disease-resistant genes in chocolate-producing trees, National Science Foundation)

The discovery of colossal barocaloric effects in a plastic crystal should bring barocaloric materials to the forefront of research and development to achieve safe environmentally friendly cooling without compromising performance.

(Green material for refrigeration identified, University of Cambridge)

A data repository developed by the National Institute of Environmental Sciences (NIEHS) National Center for Toxicogenomics (NCT) to promote a systems biology approach to understand the biological effects of environmental stressors on environmentally induced toxicity and disease.

(Chemical Effects in Biological Systems, NCI Thesaurus)