Synonyms for biomass
ˈbaɪ oʊˌmæsbiomass

Princeton's WordNet

1. biomassnoun

   plant materials and animal waste used as fuel

2. biomassnoun

   the total mass of living matter in a given unit area

Matched Categories

1. • Fuel
   • Mass

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1. List of paraphrases for "biomass":

   bio-mass, biomass-based

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1. Michael Cimarusti:

   When I was Michael Cimarusti, at Water Grill and Spago, I was in the process of becoming increasingly aware of these things, but now, I mean you have to be sleeping under a rock not to know that when some food blogger in Tokyo posts photos and writes about the delights of eating Pacific bluefin tuna -- which is down to 4 % of its historic biomass -- that person is not doing the world any favors.

2. Oceanographer Autun Purser:

   There is generally a low reign of food, as it is in the middle of the Pacific Gyre, a low productivity area with little upwelling nutrient rich waters, so though there will be seafloor animals, there will not be a high biomass down there probably.

3. Korneel Rabaey:

   We can look for new enzymes which could be used to degrade tough biomass.

4. Aron Deneyer:

   When we produce our light naphta we burn it in our car and we get some CO2, but this CO2 can be used to build new biomass and so we have a very short cycle, while crude oil will last a very long cycle to replace the crude oil.

5. Yoon Jong-Keun:

   The shutdown of 10 old coal power plants will not affect the country's power supply as we can replace them with alternative energy like biomass and renewables gradually.