Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An area bounded by natural rather than artificial borders that has characteristic flora and fauna and includes one or more ecosystems.
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- noun An
eco-region .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The children have learned to identify wild edible and medicinal plants in our bioregion, helping to harvest prickly pear and banana yucca fruit each season, as well as to appreciate the healing benefits of juniper berries, snakeweed, mallow, horehound, and more.
Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes Randall Amster 2011
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Anything you can do to enhance your home's connection to the land and the bioregion in which you live will enrich your life.
Deepak Chopra: Spiritual Solutions #30: Living in Pure Potentiality Deepak Chopra 2011
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Name five native edible plants in the bioregion and their season (s) of availability.
Place Based Education and Beachwood: A Perfect Partnership « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009
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The children have learned to identify wild edible and medicinal plants in our bioregion, helping to harvest prickly pear and banana yucca fruit each season, as well as to appreciate the healing benefits of juniper berries, snakeweed, mallow, horehound, and more.
Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes Randall Amster 2011
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Anything you can do to enhance your home's connection to the land and the bioregion in which you live will enrich your life.
Deepak Chopra: Spiritual Solutions #30: Living in Pure Potentiality Deepak Chopra 2011
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One option is "do-no-harm" compacts with neighboring communities in the same bioregion.
William S. Becker: Can We Handle Nature's New Norm? (Part 3) William S. Becker 2011
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Name five native edible plants in the bioregion and their season (s) of availability.
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One option is "do-no-harm" compacts with neighboring communities in the same bioregion.
William S. Becker: Can We Handle Nature's New Norm? (Part 3) William S. Becker 2011
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Name five native edible plants in the bioregion and their season (s) of availability.
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This work should be focused on the three most appropriate, farmer-identified organic techniques per bioregion in the 10 most agriculturally significant areas of the U.S.
Paula Crossfield: A New Direction on Research at the USDA? The Experts Weigh In 2009
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