: a major ecological community type (such as tropical rainforest, grassland, or desert)
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In each episode, the trio will embark on adventures across Brazil, discovering unique biomes, cultural traditions and important lessons about environmental preservation and the power of collaboration.
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Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025
Satellite data for her first year in office shows that deforestation in the Amazon saw a 31% year-on-year decrease, reaching the lowest annual rate in nine years, and 25% in the Cerrado, the country's second largest biome.
—Elisabeth Brier, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The crew traversed through five biomes.
—Barbie Porter, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
Alexandre Anesio, an Arctic microbiologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, argues that ice is a biome just like the forest or the desert.
—Katherine Bourzac, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
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Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025
Satellite data for her first year in office shows that deforestation in the Amazon saw a 31% year-on-year decrease, reaching the lowest annual rate in nine years, and 25% in the Cerrado, the country's second largest biome.
—Elisabeth Brier, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The crew traversed through five biomes.
—Barbie Porter, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025
Alexandre Anesio, an Arctic microbiologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, argues that ice is a biome just like the forest or the desert.
—Katherine Bourzac, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Biome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biome. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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biome
noun
bi·ome
ˈbī-ˌōm 
: a major type of ecological community
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