Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

seed vault

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English

Syllables: seed -vault
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

seed vaults (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

seed library

Synonyms

seed bank

Questions

What does seed vault mean?: A place used for storage of seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves or biodiversity elsewhere are destroyed.

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