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Meaning of seed vault | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A place used for storage of seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves or biodiversity elsewhere are destroyed.

Equivalents

Suomi siemenholvi
Nederlands zadenbank

Examples

“Bored into the middle of a snow-topped Arctic mountain, the seed vault has as its goal the storing of every kind of seed from every collection on the planet. While the original seeds will remain in ordinary seed banks, the seed vault's stacked gray boxes will form a backup in case natural disaster or human error erase the seeds from the outside world.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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