: a major ecological community type (such as tropical rainforest, grassland, or desert)
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Little is known about this hungry mob who spawns late at night and wanders all biomes in search of hamburgers.
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Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
Boreal forests, also known as taiga, are the world’s biggest biome and cover subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 2 Jan. 2025
From more types of materials players could use to build and decorate to more animals that inhabited the world to more biomes for players to explore.
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025
Students, take the quiz and then tell us: How vibrant and healthy is your social biome, according to the quiz?
—Jeremy Engle, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
Boreal forests, also known as taiga, are the world’s biggest biome and cover subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 2 Jan. 2025
From more types of materials players could use to build and decorate to more animals that inhabited the world to more biomes for players to explore.
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025
Students, take the quiz and then tell us: How vibrant and healthy is your social biome, according to the quiz?
—Jeremy Engle, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Biome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biome. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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biome
noun
bi·ome
ˈbī-ˌōm 
: a major type of ecological community
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