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Noun
/ˈbīōˌmas/,
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The total mass of organisms in a given area or volume,
  1. The total mass of organisms in a given area or volume

  2. Organic matter used as a fuel, esp. in a power station for the generation of electricity

  1. plant materials and animal waste used as fuel
  2. the total mass of living matter in a given unit area
  3. Biomass, a renewable energy source, is biological material from living, or recently living organisms, such as wood, waste, (hydrogen) gas, and alcohol fuels. Biomass is commonly plant matter grown to generate electricity or produce heat. ...
  4. The total mass of all living things within a specific area, habitat etc; Vegetation used as a fuel, or source of energy, especially if cultivated for that purpose
  5. The aggregate amount of living matter or a specific species within a specific habitat, or the total number of a specific species in a specific habitat.
  6. All of the living material in a given area; often refers to vegetation.
  7. The total weight of living tissue in a community.
  8. The use of chemicals or physical water treatments to inhibit bacterial growth in cooling towers.
  9. Total dry weight of all living organisms that can be supported at each tropic level in a food chain. ...
  10. Organic materials, such as wood by-products and agricultural wastes, that can be burned to produce energy or converted into a gas and used for fuel.
  11. any organic matter which is available on a renewable basis, including agricultural crops and agricultural wastes and residues, wood and wood wastes and residues, animal wastes, municipal wastes, and aquatic plants.
  12. Plant matter such as trees, grasses, crops, and other biological material.
  13. Gasification plants would produce gas with steam reformation. 1.5 billion tons of dry biomass, 3,300 plants which would require 113.4 million acres (460,000 km²) of farm to produce the biomass. $565 billion dollars in cost, or about $1.90 per GGE
  14. living or recently-dead organic material that can be used as an energy source or in industrial production; excludes organic material that has been transformed by geological processes (such as coal or petroleum)
  15. The total amount of living organisms in a given area.
  16. Includes wood waste and pulping liquor. Wood waste is a fuel consisting of bark, shavings, sawdust and low-grade lumber and lumber rejects from the operation of pulp mills, sawmills and plywood mills. ...
  17. Organic material both aboveground and belowground, and both living and dead, eg, trees, crops, grasses, tree litter, roots etc. Biomass includes the pool definition for above - and below - ground biomass.
  18. Any biological matter, material or byproduct composed of, or derived from, a living or previously living organism, primarily cell mass, exudates and excretions of plants, animals and microorganisms.
  19. Biomass is a natural resource. It refers to materials derived from photosynthesis which are not fossilised such as forest and mill residues, agricultural crops and wastes, etc
  20. 1. Organic matter, such as trees, plants, reject fruit, straw, algae, dairy effluent or tallow (waste fat), which can be turned into biofuel. 2. The mass of living biological organisms in a given area or ecosystem at a given time.
  21. The complete dry weight of organic material found in the biosphere or less strictly, the matter in the biosphere that is contained in living organisms. [Biology; Campbell, Niel; 1118; 1990; Benjamin Cummings, Redwood City. ...
  22. organic matter used to generate electricity, through burning, or the burning of fuel derivatives (oils, gases, alcohol), and employing special techniques and technology. ...
  23. Total weight of all organisms in a sample after drying.
  24. Organisms dead recently o their metabolic wastes.
  25. Biological material such as dead plants which can be burned as fuel to generate electricity. More...