BIOMASS Synonyms

• a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence

• a product made during the manufacture of something else

• the yield from plants in a single growing season

• a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale

• a collection of people or things appearing together

• the output of something in a season

• the stock or handle of a whip

• a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

• cut short

• prepare for crops

• yield crops

• let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

• feed as in a meadow or pasture

• cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

• the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977

• (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs

• forceful exertion

• enterprising or ambitious drive

• an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)

• a healthy capacity for vigorous activity

• any source of usable power

• food for domestic livestock

• provide as food

• give food to

• feed into; supply

• introduce continuously

• support or promote

• take in food; used of animals only

• serve as food for; be the food for

• move along, of liquids

• profit from in an exploitatory manner

• gratify

• provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

• soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire

• coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop

• give fodder (to domesticated animals)

• any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue

• any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment

• anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking

• the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber

• a substance that can be consumed to produce energy

• provide with a combustible substance that provides energy

• provide with fuel

• take in fuel, as of a ship

• stimulate

• derived from or composed of matter

• directly relevant to a matter especially a law case

• having material or physical form or substance

• having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary

• the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object

• information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form

• artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

• things needed for doing or making something

• a person judged suitable for admission or employment

• concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests

• concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being

• relating or belonging to the class of chemical compounds having a carbon basis

• being or relating to or derived from or having properties characteristic of living organisms

• involving or affecting physiology or bodily organs

• a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter

• of or relating to foodstuff grown or raised without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides or hormones

• simple and healthful and close to nature

• constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)

• buildings for carrying on industrial labor

• (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

• an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience

• something planted secretly for discovery by another

• put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground

• fix or set securely or deeply

• set up or lay the groundwork for

• place into a river

• place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive

• put firmly in the mind

• food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

• show unwillingness towards

• not accept as true

• elude, especially in a baffling way

• refuse to let have

• resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ

• refuse entrance or membership

• that can be renewed or extended

• capable of being renewed; replaceable

• matter that remains after something has been removed

• something left after other parts have been taken away

• available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed

• a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed

• the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

• all the plant life in a particular region or period

• the process of growth in plants

• an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)

• inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life

• any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted

• useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly

• the trait of wasting resources

• an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

• (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect

• located in a dismal or remote area; desolate

• spend thoughtlessly; throw away

• use inefficiently or inappropriately

• dispose of

• run off as waste

• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

• spend extravagantly

• lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

• cause to grow thin or weak

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• become physically weaker

• United States film actress (1938-1981)

• the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

• the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

• English conductor (1869-1944)

• any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

• English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)

• a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head

• United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)