Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The total mass of living matter within a given unit of environmental area.
- n. Plant material, vegetation, or agricultural waste used as a fuel or energy source.
Wiktionary
- n. The total mass of all living things within a specific area, habitat etc.
- n. Vegetation used as a fuel, or source of energy, especially if cultivated for that purpose.
WordNet 3.0
- n. plant materials and animal waste used as fuel
- n. the total mass of living matter in a given unit area
Etymologies
- bio- + mass (Wiktionary)
Examples
“ The term biomass is most often encountered in discussions of sources of energy, as biomass can be used to supply energy needs directly (as fuel wood, for example) or indirectly (by being converted to alcohol; see gasohol).”
“I recall seeing some study last year from the Smoky Mountains research site that found only a 20% increase in biomass of the trees that they studied, which was about half of what they had predicted in the model.”
“Peter + Maria Hoey When biomass is used in making plastic, it replaces petroleum products as an ingredient, thus reducing demand for carbon-laden fossil fuels.”
“BASF When biomass is used in making plastic, it replaces petroleum products as an ingredient, reducing demand for carbon-laden fossil fuels.”
“More autotroph biomass is just going to provide more organic material for heterotrophs.”
“The current spawning stock biomass is 120 million pounds, or 61 million fish.”
“Ethanol from biomass is the only true C02-neutral fuel.”
Hydrogen Cars, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
““The United State desperately needs a liquid fuel replacement for oil in the near future,” says Pimentel, “but producing ethanol or biodiesel from plant biomass is going down the wrong road, because you use more energy to produce these fuels than you get out from the combustion of these products.””
“The demand for wood biomass is expected to increase with the newly agreed upon northeast states Kyoto like compact.”
A Different Take on "Green Linings" to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
“Growth in biomass could put US on road to energy independence”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘biomass’.
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ITRE - energy - general terms
above-market cost, access charge, actual peak load ..., affiliate, affiliated power ..., after-market, aggregation, aggregator, Alternating Curre..., Ampere, ancillary services, annual effects and 453 more...
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AGRI - sustainable agriculture
abiota, aborigines, absorptive capacity, acceptable daily ..., acclimation, acid precipitation, acquired by weeds..., active solar heating, acute, adaptation, additives, aerosol and 447 more...
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Alternative energy concepts
Words that are becoming more important as we learn more about alternative and renewable energy sources.
microreactors, fuel cell, biomass, biofuel, algae, fission, fusion, turbine, hydrogen, solar, photovoltaic, solar thermal and 47 more...
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Words of Dinosaurology
This quickly got bigger and weirder than originally intended, so now it's housing terms that relate to the study of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. See also Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Ichthy...
zygopophyses, ziphodont, plesiomorphic, cleidoic, endothermy, ectothermy, viviparous, vertebrae, cervical, dorsal, sacral, caudal and 628 more...
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The DEADLIEST Catch
All the words I keep hearing now that Season 4 has launched. WOOOO!!
Edit: Amended list to include other fishing terms (not necessarily crab-fishing, not necessarily heard on Deadliest...bering sea, launch, pot, bait, icy, dutch harbor, processing, greenhorn, coast guard, survival suit, opilio, king crab and 65 more...
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