Meaning

2 senses
  1. The part of the Earth and its atmosphere capable of supporting life.

    Biosphäre

    биосфе́раbiosféra

  2. The totality of living organisms and their environment.

    the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The watercourse is to the biosphere what blood circulation is to a human being.

    deDer Wasserkreislauf ist für die Biosphäre das, was der Blutkreislauf für ein Lebewesen ist.

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  2. In this place of beauty, there is an underside of lawlessness, corruption and poverty that could threaten the sustainability of the biosphere.

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  3. The word biosphere comes from a Greek word meaning "life globe."

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  4. The Permian mass extinction is the largest biosphere catastrophe in Earth's history.

    ruМассовое пермское вымирание - крупнейшая катастрофа биосферы в истории Земли.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
part of Earth capable of supporting life:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
part of Earth capable of supporting life:

Origin

Borrowed from German Biosphäre, coined by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess in 1875. By surf

Borrowed from German Biosphäre, coined by Austrian geologist Eduard Suess in 1875. By surface analysis, bio- + -sphere.

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Forms

plural: biospheres
Singularbiosphere
Pluralbiospheres

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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