English
Etymology
From bio- + diversity.
Pronunciation
Noun
biodiversity (countable and uncountable, plural biodiversities)
- (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
Translations
diversity of flora and fauna
- Arabic: تَنَوُّع البِيُولُوجِيّ (tanawwuʕ al-biyūlūjiyy)
- Armenian: կենսաբազմազանություն (hy) (kensabazmazanutʻyun)
- 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
- 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 (jaiv vividhtā)
- Hungarian: biodiverzitás (hu)
- Icelandic: líffræðileg fjölbreytni f
- Indonesian: keanekaragaman hayati, biodiversitas
- 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: біорізноманіття (bioriznomanittja)
- Vietnamese: đa dạng sinh học
- Welsh: bioamrywiaeth
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