hectare
Americannoun
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hectares
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of hectare
From French, dating back to 1800–10; see origin at hect-, are 2
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A peatland that deep has been known to harbour more than 6,000 tonnes of carbon – roughly equivalent to the annual CO₂ emissions of 4,800 cars – per hectare.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Over 13 years, the site accumulated about 1,194 tonnes of carbon, which equals 10.1 tonnes of CO2 per hectare each year.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2026
More than 95 percent of its 30,000 members own less than a hectare of land.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
According to the World Bank, productivity in Ivorian cocoa groves has stagnated in the past 20 years, at about 450 to 550 kilograms per hectare.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
Cereal crops have the virtues of being fast growing, high in carbohydrates, and yielding up to a ton of edible food per hectare cultivated.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Since 2021, the National Trust said it had planted 125,000 trees and created 35 hectares of woodland and 52 hectares of wood pasture, with another 77 hectares of tree planting currently being designed.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Fires in Indonesia that have caused a regional haze crisis burned through over 1.9 million hectares between January and the end of September this year, a monitor analysing satellite imagery said on Monday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Nusantara Atlas founder David Gaveau said the true scale of the burning was likely to be even higher than the 1,916,588 hectares his organisation has detected so far.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
This year, since January, at least 895,657 hectares of land – nearly six times the size of Greater London – have been burned.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The buildings of the Hounslow Feely Studio covered seven and a half hectares.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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