ecology

ecology
noun (plural -gies) Etymology: German Ökologie, from öko- eco- + -logie -logy Date: 1873 1. a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments 2. the totality or pattern of relations between organisms and their environment 3. human ecology 4. environment, climate <
the moral ecology
>
; also an often delicate or intricate system or complex <
the ecology of language
>
ecological also ecologic adjectiveecologically adverbecologist noun

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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