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    BIOME

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climateplay

    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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