biomass
noun
the amount of living matter in a given habitat, expressed either as the weight of organisms per unit area or as the volume of organisms per unit volume of habitat.
biomasses
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pluralof biomass.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Tiny but bountiful, Antarctic krill make up one of the planet’s largest biomasses, nourishing everything from fish to marine mammals and seabirds.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
Tiny but bountiful, Antarctic krill make up one of the planet’s largest biomasses, nourishing everything from fish to giant humpback whales.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
They then fed whatever data they could find—ranges, body sizes, abundance, diets—for each of about 4800 additional mammal species into the model to estimate their biomasses and abundance.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 27, 2023
The present biomass on the Earth is estimated at around 1 trillion tons, yielding the possibility of forming about 10 billion new terrestrial-size biomasses that could support a total of about 100 million-trillion humans.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2022
