Definitions for ecologyɪˈkɒl ə dʒi

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

e•col•o•gyɪˈkɒl ə dʒi(n.)

  1. the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment.

    Category: Biology

  2. the set of relationships existing between organisms and their environment.

    Category: Biology

  3. Category: Sociology

    Ref: Also called human ecology.

  4. the advocacy of protection of the air, water, and other natural resources from pollution or its effects; environmentalism.

    Category: Ecology, Common Vocabulary

Origin of ecology:

1870–75; earlier oecology < G Ökologie (1868) < Gk oîk(os) house +-o- -o - + G -logie -logy

e•col′o•gist(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. ecology(noun)

    the environment as it relates to living organisms

    "it changed the ecology of the island"

  2. ecology, bionomics, environmental science(noun)

    the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. ecology(noun)ɪˈkɒl ə dʒi

    the study of the environment and the relationships between things in it

    the ecology of the swamp; He's studying ecology.

Wiktionary

  1. ecology(Noun)

    The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.

  2. Origin: From Ökologie, from οἶκος + -λογία

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Ecology

    The branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their ENVIRONMENT, especially as manifested by natural cycles and rhythms, community development and structure, interactions between different kinds of organisms, geographic distributions, and population alterations. (Webster's, 3d ed)


Translations for ecology

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

ecology(noun)

(the study of) living things considered in relation to their environment

Pollution has a disastrous effect on the ecology of a region.

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