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seed vault

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

Noun

seed vault (plural seed vaults)

  1. A place used for storage of seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves or biodiversity elsewhere are destroyed.
    • 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...2008 February 28, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “In Norway, Global Seed Vault guards genetic resources”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    seed bank

Synonyms of seed vault

Forms of seed vault

pluralseed vaults

Questions about seed vault

What does seed vault mean?
Seed vault means a place used for storage of seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves or biodiversity elsewhere are destroyed.
What part of speech is seed vault?
Seed vault is a noun.
What is the plural of seed vault?
The plural of seed vault is seed vaults.

Words near seed vault in the dictionary

  1. seed stocks
  2. seed tick
  3. seed ticks
  4. seed tree
  5. seed trees
  6. seed vault
  7. seed vaults
  8. seed vessel
  9. seed vessels
  10. seed weevil
  11. seed wool

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