🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

biodiversidade

Pronunciation / Transliteration: biodiversidade

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Biodiversity/ˌbaɪ.oʊ.daɪˈvɜːr.sə.ti/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A Amazônia abriga uma imensa biodiversidade."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

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As noun
  1. 1

    The variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat, a high level of which is usually considered to be important and desirable.

    "Deforestation poses a severe threat to the region's rich biodiversity."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in the 1980s as a contraction of 'biological diversity', combining the Greek 'bios' meaning life with Latin 'diversitas' meaning variety or difference. It emerged prominently during the 1988 National Forum on BioDiversity organized by Walter G. Rosen and E.O. Wilson, rapidly becoming a cornerstone term in ecology, conservation biology, and environmental policy.

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