biome

«biome» in Mova's school dictionary: a large area of the Earth with its own climate, plants… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a biome, biomes)

meaning for a pupil

1) A biome is a large area of the Earth with its own climate, plants and animals, like a desert, rainforest, grassland or tundra. tree →

2) (informal, games) A biome is a type of land area in a video game, like a snow biome. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons pupils learn the main biomes: tropical rainforest, desert, grassland (savanna), temperate forest, taiga, tundra, and ocean biomes. Each biome's plants and animals are adapted to its temperature and rainfall. In computer games like building games, players explore different biomes.

examples

• The desert is a hot, dry biome. tree →
• Polar bears live in the tundra biome. tree →
• The rainforest biome has the most kinds of animals. tree →
• Cacti are adapted to the desert biome. tree →
• We made a poster comparing two biomes. tree →
• In the game I found a snowy biome full of ice. tree →

note

Countable. Pronounced BY-ome. A biome is bigger than a habitat or ecosystem; it covers huge regions across many countries.

In the corpora

• A biome is a large region with its own climate, plants and animals.
• Rainforests have more kinds of plants and animals than any other land biome.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «biome» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.