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Noun: ecology  i'kó-lu-jee
  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
    - bionomics, environmental science

Derived forms: ecologies

Type of: biological science, biology, environment

Encyclopedia: Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity