Wiktionary
n. A natural resource such that it is replenished by natural processes at a rate comparable to its rate of consumption by humans or other users.
WordNet
n. any natural resource (as wood or solar energy) that can be replenished naturally with the passage of time
Wikipedia
A 'renewable resource' is an organic natural resource which can replenish to overcome usage and consumption, either through biological reproduction or other naturally reoccurring processes in a finite amount of time. Renewable resources are a part of Earth's natural environment and the largest components of its ecosphere. A positive life cycle assessment is a key indicator of a resource's sustainability.
Definitions of renewable: resources may also include agricultural production, as in sustainable agriculture and to an extent water resources. In 1962 Paul Alfred Weiss defined Renewable Resources as: "The total range of living organisms providing man with food, fibres, drugs, etc...". Another type of renewable resources is renewable energy resources. Common sources of renewable energy include solar, geothermal and wind power, which are all categorised as renewable resources.
Usage examples of "renewable resource".
The major assumption of Niven's version of history is that once upon a time magic really worked, but that it was based on a non-renewable resource: manna Magical creatures and magicians (and before them the gods themselves) used up manna at a frightful rate-until finally the magic goes away.
So we can envision a house of the future built, plumbed, painted and furnished with the world's number-one renewable resource - hemp.
We call it a renewable resource, Clodagh,' Portia said like she was talking to someone dumb enough to go out in midwinter without a coat on.
Perhaps he would finally be able to discover how the ivops could be a renewable resource.
A renewable resource if properly looked after, its woods would provide income to the colonists in the form of everything from exotic furniture to tourism.
Forgiveness for them would not be the ever renewable resource it was for humankind - grudges might be kept for millennia.
Forgiveness for them would not be theever renewable resource it was for humankind - grudgesmight be kept for millennia.
Forgiveness for them would not be the ever renewable resource it was for humankind —.
Trees were a renewable resource, and the logging companies had been pretty good about reseeding the land, but the fact remained that they were cutting a lot faster than the trees were growing.
For all I knew, the canopied trees were an edible, renewable resource.
A much-sought-after renewable resource are the exquisitely beautiful Caledonian pearls, fashioned by native artisans into high-priced jewelry much coveted by the Poltroyan race as well as by humankind.
But it was still a value even when considered objectively, for it was a renewable resource whose natural situation prevented ruinous exploitation.
Small wonder then that simple metal, which might be fashioned into blades, and wood, that gloriously renewable resource, which might be fashioned into arrows and bows, began again to appear in the mixed arsenals of a million worlds.
Once a social worker gets her hooks into you, you never get well, because you're a renewable resource.