biosphere

See also: biosphère

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biosphere

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪəʊˌsfɪə(ɹ)/

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

biosphere (plural biospheres)

1. The part of the Earth and its atmosphere capable of supporting life.
2. The totality of living organisms and their environment.
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Patavig:

     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.

Hypernyms

• sphere

Hyponyms

• deep biosphere

Derived terms

• abiosphere
• biospherian

Related terms

• biospheric / biospherical

Translations

part of Earth capable of supporting life

Albanian: biosferë (sq) f Armenian: կենսոլորտ (hy) (kensolort) Catalan: biosfera f Chinese: Mandarin: 生物圈 (zh) (shēngwùquān) Czech: biosféra (cs) f Dutch: biosfeer (nl) m or f Finnish: biosfääri (fi), elonkehä French: biosphère (fr) f Georgian: ბიოსფერო (biospero) German: Biosphäre (de) f Greek: βιόσφαιρα (el) f (viósfaira) Hebrew: ביוספרה (he) f (biosféra) Hindi: जीवमंडल m (jīvmaṇḍal) Hungarian: bioszféra (hu) Italian: biosfera (it) f Japanese: 生物圏 (ja) (せいぶつけん, seibutsuken) Kazakh: биосфера (biosfera) Korean: 생물권(生物圏) (ko) (saengmulgwon) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ژینگۆ (jîngo) Latin: biosphaera f Malayalam: ജൈവമണ്ഡലം (jaivamaṇḍalaṁ) Maori: ao rauropi Norwegian: Bokmål: biosfære m Nynorsk: biosfære m Occitan: biosfèra f Persian: زیست‌کره (zist-kore), زیست‌سپهر (zist-sepehr) Polish: biosfera (pl) f Portuguese: biosfera (pt) f Russian: биосфе́ра (ru) f (biosféra) Slovene: biosfera f Spanish: biosfera (es) f Swedish: biosfär (sv) c Tagalog: haybulog Vietnamese: sinh quyển (vi) (生圈)

totality of living organisms

Finnish: biosfääri (fi) Greek: βιόσφαιρα (el) f (viósfaira) Hindi: जीवमंडल m (jīvmaṇḍal)

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Irish: (please verify) bithsféar m