biodiversity

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.

Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)

Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.

English bio-

English diversity

English biodiversity

From bio- + diversity.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌbaɪə(ʊ)daɪˈvɜːsɪti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌbaɪoʊdəˈvɚsəti/, [-ɾi]
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌbaɪoʊdɑɪˈvɚsəti/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: bi‧o‧di‧vers‧i‧ty

Noun

biodiversity (countable and uncountable, plural biodiversities)

1. (ecology) The diversity (number and variety of species) of plant and animal life within a region.
   • 2019 February 22, James Griffiths, “‘Extinction crisis’ threatening global food supply, UN report warns”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     A drop in global biodiversity is putting our ability to produce food at risk, a new United Nations report warns.

Derived terms

• agricultural biodiversity
• agrobiodiversity
• biodiverse
• biodiversity hotspot
• biodiversity offset
• human biodiversity
• macrobiodiversity
• megabiodiversity
• microbiodiversity
• paleobiodiversity
• sociobiodiversity

Translations

diversity of flora and fauna

• Arabic: تَنَوُّع البِيُولُوجِيّ (tanawwuʕ al-biyūlūjiyy)
• Armenian: կենսաբազմազանություն (hy) (kensabazmazanutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: biomüxtəliflik
• Belarusian: біяразнастайнасць f (bijaraznastajnascʹ), біаразнастайнасць f (biaraznastajnascʹ), біялагічная разнастайнасць f (bijalahičnaja raznastajnascʹ)
• Bulgarian: биоразнообразие n (bioraznoobrazie), биологичното разнообразие n (biologičnoto raznoobrazie)
• Catalan: biodiversitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生物多樣性 / 生物多样性 (zh) (shēngwù duōyàngxìng)

• Cornish: bewdhiverseth f
• Czech: biodiverzita (cs) f
• Dutch: biodiversiteit (nl) f, soortenrijkdom (nl) m
• Esperanto: biodiverseco
• Faroese: lívfrøðiligt margfeldni n
• Finnish: elonkirjo, biodiversiteetti (fi)
• French: biodiversité (fr) f
• Galician: biodiversidade f
• Georgian: ბიომრავალფეროვნება (biomravalperovneba)
• German: Biodiversität (de) f, Artenvielfalt (de) f, Sortenvielfalt f, Artenreichtum m, biologische Diversität f, biologische Vielfalt f
• Greek: βιοποικιλότητα (el) f (viopoikilótita)
• Hindi: जैव विविधता f (jaiv vividhtā)
• Hungarian: biodiverzitás (hu)
• Icelandic: líffræðileg fjölbreytni f
• Indonesian: (learned borrowing) biodiversitas, keragaman hayati (id)
• Irish: bithéagsúlacht f
• Italian: biodiversità (it) f
• Japanese: 生物多様性 (ja) (せいぶつたようせい, seibutsu tayō-sei)
• Khmer: ជីវចំរុះ (ciiv cɑmroh)
• Korean: 생물의 다양성 (saengmurui dayangseong)
• Latin: biodiversitas f
• Macedonian: биолошката разновидност (biološkata raznovidnost)
• Malay: biokepelbagaian (ms), biodiversiti
• Maltese: bijodiversità f
• Marathi: जैवविविधता (mr) f (jaivvividhtā)
• Norman: biodivèrsité f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: biodiversitet m, biomangfold n biologisk mangfold n

  Nynorsk: biodiversitet m, biomangfald n, biologisk mangfald n

• Occitan: biodiversitat f
• Persian: تنوع زیستی (fa)
• Polish: bioróżnorodność (pl) f
• Portuguese: biodiversidade (pt) f
• Romanian: biodiversitate f
• Russian: биоразнообра́зие (ru) n (bioraznoobrázije)
• Scottish Gaelic: bith-iomadachd f
• Slovak: biodiverzita f
• Slovene: biodiverziteta f
• Spanish: biodiversidad (es) f
• Swedish: biodiversitet c, biologisk mångfald (sv) c
• Tagalog: saribuhay
• Tamil: பல்லுயிர் (ta) (palluyir)
• Telugu: జీవవైవిధ్యం (jīvavaividhyaṁ)
• Thai: ความหลากหลายทางชีวภาพ (kwaam-làak-lǎai-taang-chii-wá-pâap)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: біорізномані́ття n (bioriznomaníttja), біорізномані́тність f (bioriznomanítnistʹ)
• Vietnamese: đa dạng sinh học
• Welsh: bioamrywiaeth

Further reading

• biodiversity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia