English noun: ecology |
1. | ecology (state) the environment as it relates to living organisms |
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| Samples | It changed the ecology of the island.
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| Broader (hypernym) | environment |
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2. | ecology (cognition) the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment |
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| Synonyms | bionomics, environmental science |
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| Broader (hypernym) | biological science, biology |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | palaeoecology, paleoecology |
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| Domain category members | association, biotic community, community, cosmopolitan, ecesis, ecological niche, ecological succession, endemic, establishment, food chain, food cycle, food pyramid, food web, niche, succession, widely distributed |
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