biomass
IPA: bˈaɪʌmæs
noun
- (biology)
- The total mass of a living thing or a part thereof (such as a cell).
- The total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.
- Organic matter from living things which were recently alive (especially vegetation) used as a fuel or source of energy, especially if cultivated for that purpose; also, fuel produced from such organic matter; biofuel.
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Examples of "biomass" in Sentences
- I pulled the reference off the biomass page.
- Biomass is definitely the fuel of the future.
- The processing of biomass converts it to diesel.
- The biomass units represent all the targeted species.
- Fishes grazed the alga and quickly reduced the biomass.
- The greater the biomass, the greater the nutrient turnover.
- The forest contains twice the biomass of tropical rainforest.
- Lignocellulosic biomass is the feedstock for the pulp and paper industry.
- In most environments, it is the final step in the decomposition of biomass.
- It is the precursor to hemicellulose, one of the main constituents of biomass.
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