ecology

4 definitions found

ecology - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  oecology \oe*col"o*gy\ ([-e]*k[o^]l"[-o]*j[y^]), n. [Gr. o'i^kos
     house + -logy.] (Biol.)
     The various relations of animals and plants to one another
     and to the outer world; -- now more commonly spelled
     ecology. [Also spelled ecology.]
     [1913 Webster]

  ecology \ecology\ ([-e]*k[o^]l"[-o]*j[y^]), n. [Gr. o'i^kos
     house + -logy.] (Biol.)
     the branch of biology concerned with the various relations of
     animals and plants to one another and to their surrounding
     environment.
     [PJC]

ecology - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  ecology
      n 1: the environment as it relates to living organisms; "it
           changed the ecology of the island"
      2: the branch of biology concerned with the relations between
         organisms and their environment [syn: ecology, bionomics,
         environmental science]

ecology - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "ecology":
     aerobiology, agrobiology, anatomy, animal physiology, anthropology,
     astrobiology, autecology, bacteriology, biochemics, biochemistry,
     biochemy, bioecology, biological science, biology, biometrics,
     biometry, bionics, bionomics, biophysics, botany, cell physiology,
     commensality, comparative anatomy, conchology, cryobiology,
     cybernetics, cytology, ecoclimate, ecodeme, ecosystem,
     electrobiology, element, embryology, entomology, enzymology,
     ethnobiology, ethology, exobiology, genetics, gnotobiotics,
     helminthology, herpetology, ichthyology, life science, malacology,
     mammalogy, medium, microbiology, molecular biology, ornithology,
     parasitism, pharmacology, physiology, protozoology, radiobiology,
     symbiosis, symbiotics, synecology, taxidermy, taxonomy, virology,
     xenobiology, zoogeography, zoography, zoology, zoonomy,
     zoopathology, zoophysics, zootaxy, zootomy