BIOME
Dictionary entry overview: What does biome mean? • BIOME (noun)
The noun BIOME has 1 sense:
1. a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate
Familiarity information: BIOME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BIOME (noun)
Meaning:
A major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("biome" is a kind of...):
biotic community; community ((ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biome"):
desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)
grassland (land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life)
forest; timber; timberland; woodland (land that is covered with trees and shrubs)
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