'ecology' definitions:
Definition of 'ecology'
(from WordNet)
noun
The environment as it relates to living organisms; "it changed the ecology of the island"
noun
The branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment [syn: ecology, bionomics, environmental science]
Definition of 'ecology'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'ecology'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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