biosphere

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The part of the Earth and its atmosphere capable of supporting life.
  2. The totality of living organisms and their environment.
    — Patavig is the second of the Macedon system's giant terrestrial planets, and by far the more interesting. Most of the surface is covered by a vast sea of liquid ammonia, in which a unique aquatic ammonia-based biosphere has developed. While the frozen continents are largely bereft of life, a rich bounty of complex organisms — many larger than a human — flourish in the chilly, toxic seas.

词形变化

biospheres plural

词汇关系

上位词
sphere
下位词
deep biosphere
衍生词
abiosphere biospherian
相关词
biospheric biospherical

词源

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