biofuel

English

Etymology

From bio- +‎ fuel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪ.əʊˌfjʊ(.ə)l/

Noun

biofuel (plural biofuels)

1. Any fuel that is obtained from a renewable biological resource, especially from biomass
   • 2012, George Monbiot, Guardian Weekly, August 24, p.20

     Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground.

Translations

biofuel

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生物燃料 (zh) (shēngwù ránliào), 生質燃料／生质燃料, 生质燃料 (shēngzhì ránliào), 生態燃料／生态燃料, 生态燃料 (shēngtài ránliào)

• Czech: biopalivo (cs) n
• Danish: biobrændsel (da)
• Estonian: biokütus (et)
• Finnish: biopolttoaine (fi)
• Galician: biocombustible m, biocarburante m
• German: Biosprit (de) m, Biokraftstoff (de) m
• Greek: βιοκαύσιμο (el) n (viokáfsimo)
• Irish: bithbhreosla m
• Kazakh: биоотын (biootyn)
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• Macedonian: биогориво n (biogorivo)
• Mongolian: биотүлш (biotülš)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: biodrivstoff n

  Nynorsk: biodrivstoff n

• Polish: biopaliwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: biocombustível m
• Romanian: biocombustibil (ro) m
• Russian: биото́пливо (ru) n (biotóplivo)
• Spanish: biocombustible m, biocarburante m
• Swedish: biobränsle (sv)
• Turkish: biyoyakıt (tr)

Further reading

• biofuel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia