biome
noun
bi·ome ˈbī-ˌōm 
: a major ecological community type (such as tropical rain forest, grassland, or desert)
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web In recent decades, as deforestation has pushed the biome toward what scientists warn could be its collapse, the very people accused of playing a role in that destruction have come to wield significant political power over it. 
Washington Post, 27 July 2022 The open world shrunk, many campaign segments were kept linear and the biome remained uniform. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 In 2020, wildfires burned 40% of the state's Pantanal biome, the world's most extensive tropical wetlands. Fabiano Maisonnave, ajc, 6 Aug. 2022 No exploration in what looked like a third major island on the map, and no hope that Halo Infinite would expand beyond its singular biome. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 Same for the Sierras — that biome has survived hundred-year droughts before and will again, presumably. David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022 Gut showed that a Mediterranean diet, where fish, poultry, fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and healthy fats rule, reduces inflammation in the body by changing your gut biome, or the types of bacteria that live in your digestive system. Rachel Reiff Ellis, Fortune, 3 June 2022 Where Ravn conceives of work as a sterile prison, Hiroko Oyamada depicts it as a spuming biome. Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2022 Cattle ranching, responsible for the great majority of deforestation in the Amazon, is pushing the forest to the edge of what scientists warn could be a vast and irreversible dieback that claims much of the biome. Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022 See More
Washington Post, 27 July 2022 The open world shrunk, many campaign segments were kept linear and the biome remained uniform. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 In 2020, wildfires burned 40% of the state's Pantanal biome, the world's most extensive tropical wetlands. Fabiano Maisonnave, ajc, 6 Aug. 2022 No exploration in what looked like a third major island on the map, and no hope that Halo Infinite would expand beyond its singular biome. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 Same for the Sierras — that biome has survived hundred-year droughts before and will again, presumably. David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022 Gut showed that a Mediterranean diet, where fish, poultry, fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and healthy fats rule, reduces inflammation in the body by changing your gut biome, or the types of bacteria that live in your digestive system. Rachel Reiff Ellis, Fortune, 3 June 2022 Where Ravn conceives of work as a sterile prison, Hiroko Oyamada depicts it as a spuming biome. Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2022 Cattle ranching, responsible for the great majority of deforestation in the Amazon, is pushing the forest to the edge of what scientists warn could be a vast and irreversible dieback that claims much of the biome. Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
bi- entry 2 + -ome
First Known Use
1916, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
biome
noun
bi·ome ˈbī-ˌōm
: a major type of community of distinctive plants and animals living together in a particular climate and physical environment