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seed vaults

seed vaults is the plural of seed vault.

Meaning of seed vault

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

Questions about seed vaults

What is seed vaults the plural of?
Seed vaults is the plural of seed vault.

Words near seed vaults in the dictionary

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

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