ecology
English
Alternative forms
- œcology (archaic)
Etymology
From German Ökologie (coined by Ernst Haeckel), from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”)
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ecol‧ogy
- Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Noun
ecology (countable and uncountable, plural ecologies)
- (biology) The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
- 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart Earth Abides
- As a graduate student, he was working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area. He had to investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and animals in this region.
- 2012 January, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, page 31:
- As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
- 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart Earth Abides
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- agroecology
- astroecology
- autecology
- bioecology
- chemical ecology
- cultural ecology
- deep ecology
- dendroecology
- eco-
- ecological
- ecologist
- ecology block
- ecosystem
- ecotribe
- ethnoecology
- geoecology
- hydroecology
- macroecology
- microecology
- myrmecology
- paleoecology
- photoecology
- radioecology
- restoration ecology
- socioecology
- synecology
- zooecology
Related terms
Translations
branch of biology
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References
See also
Further reading
- "ecology" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 110.
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- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɒlədʒi
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Biology
- English terms with quotations
- Min Nan terms with non-redundant manual script codes
- English words prefixed with eco-
- English words suffixed with -ology
- en:Ecology
- en:Sciences