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en

Definition

DefGEMET: Biomass refers strictly speaking to the total weight of all the living things in an ecosystem. However, it has come to refer to the amount of plant and crop material that could be produced in an ecosystem for making biofuels and other raw materials used in industry, for example. (Source: WRIGHT)

Part of speech

Noun (male)

Base form

biomass

Inflectionals

biomass, biomasses

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Source Note

de

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Change Notes

Initial version
on 2003-06-15
Last change
Barbara Fock on 2019-03-18