BharatNotes Biomass
noun (often used attributively, as in "biomass energy")Usage in a UPSC answer
As India pursues its net-zero commitment, harnessing agricultural biomass for decentralised power generation offers a twin dividend: it curbs the stubble-burning that chokes north Indian cities each winter, while providing farmers a supplementary income stream from what was once treated as waste.
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Word Family
biomass (n), biomasses (n pl), bioenergy (n), biomaterial (n), biofuel (n)
Root
Greek bios = life; bio- = life-prefix; Latin massa = lump, quantity; first recorded 1930s
Etymology
From bio- (from Greek bios, life) + mass (from Latin massa, lump or quantity); first recorded in the 1930s.
Memory Hook
Break it as BIO + MASS — a "mass of life": all the living (or once-living) stuff you can burn for green energy or weigh in an ecosystem.
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