Meaning of seed vault | Babel Free
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.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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