biome
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oʊm noun Ecology.
a complex biotic community characterized by distinctive plant and animal species and maintained under the climatic conditions of the region, especially such a community that has developed to climax.
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| See formation a major ecological community, extending over a large area and usually characterized by a dominant vegetation | |
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Biome
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Medical Dictionary
biome bi·ome (bī'ōm')
n.
The total complex of biotic communities occupying and characterizing a particular area or zone, such as a desert or deciduous forest.
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| biome (bī'ōm') Pronunciation Key
A large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region. Terrestrial biomes, typically defined by their climate and dominant vegetation, include grassland, tundra, desert, tropical rainforest, and deciduous and coniferous forests. There are two basic aquatic biomes, freshwater and marine, which are sometimes further broken down into categories such as lakes and rivers or pelagic, benthic, and intertidal zones. |
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Example sentences
Humans have the ability to rapidly transfer from one biome to another.
Most plants in the alpine biome are small, and their leaves are stiff and strong to protect them from frost and drought.
They called their newly-defined areas “anthromes,” short for anthropological biomes.
Not all scientists classify biomes in the same way.
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