BIOMASS
Dictionary entry overview: What does biomass mean? • BIOMASS (noun)
The noun BIOMASS has 2 senses:
1. plant materials and animal waste used as fuel
2. the total mass of living matter in a given unit area
Familiarity information: BIOMASS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BIOMASS (noun)
Meaning:
Plant materials and animal waste used as fuel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("biomass" is a kind of...):
fuel (a substance that can be consumed to produce energy)
Meaning:
The total mass of living matter in a given unit area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("biomass" is a kind of...):
mass (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)
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