Jellyfish make up up to 40% of the biomass of the ocean.
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Biomass
//ˈbaɪə(ʊ)mæs//
Synonyms for "biomass" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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63 translations across 39 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- كتلة بيولوجية noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Aragonese
1 entries- biomasa noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- biokütlə noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Catalan
2 entries- biomassa noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- biomassa noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 生物質能 /生物质能 noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
- 生物量 noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Czech
2 entries- biomasa noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- biomasa noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Dutch
2 entries- biomassa noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- biomassa noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Esperanto
1 entries- biomaso noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Estonian
1 entries- biomass noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Finnish
3 entries- biomassa noun (total mass of a living thing or a part thereof)
- biomassa noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- biomassa noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
French
2 entries- biomasse noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- biomasse noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Galician
1 entries- biomasa noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
German
2 entries- Biomasse noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- Biomasse noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Greek
2 entries- βιομάζα noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- βιομάζα noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Hebrew
1 entries- בִּיּוֹמַסָּה noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Ido
1 entries- biomaso noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Indonesian
1 entries- biomassa noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Irish
2 entries- bithmhais noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- bithmhais noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Italian
1 entries- biomassa noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Japanese
1 entries- バイオマス noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Kazakh
2 entries- биомасса noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- биомасса noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Khmer
1 entries- ជីវម៉ាស noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- биомасса noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Lithuanian
1 entries- biomasė noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Macedonian
2 entries- биома́са noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- биома́са noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- biomasse noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- biomasse noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Persian
1 entries- زیستتوده noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Polish
3 entries- biomasa noun (total mass of a living thing or a part thereof)
- biomasa noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- biomasa noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Portuguese
2 entries- biomassa noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- biomassa noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Romanian
1 entries- biomasă noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Russian
2 entries- биома́сса noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- биома́сса noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Spanish
2 entries- biomasa noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- biomasa noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Swedish
2 entries- biomassa noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- biomassa noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Tagalog
2 entries- haykimpal noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- haykimpal noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Turkish
2 entries- biyokütle noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- biyokütle noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Ukrainian
1 entries- біома́са noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Vietnamese
3 entries- sinh khối noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- sinh khối noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
- sinh khối loài noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
Welsh
3 entries- biomas noun (total mass of a living thing or a part thereof)
- biomas noun (total mass of all, or a specified category of, living things within a specific area, habitat, etc.)
- biomas noun (organic matter from living things which were recently alive used as a fuel or source of energy)
Sample sentences
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This fungus maintains its biomass under the soil.
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Now, the more than 1,000 researchers and staff at N-REL develop everything from wind power to biomass technology, which involves using organic waste products to create clean-burning energy.
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Since protein constitutes the majority of the biomass of a cell, building new protein is a major way that cells increase their size.
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