🇵🇹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."

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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

The term is a portmanteau coined in 1985 from biological and diversity, popularized during the 1986 National Forum on BioDiversity in Washington, D.C. It combines the Greek 'bios' (life) with the Latin 'diversitas' (variety or difference) to describe the totality of genes, species, and ecosystems in a region.

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