Definitions for ecology

ecology e·col·o·gy

Spelling: [ih-kol-uh-jee]
IPA: /ɪˈkɒl ə dʒi/

Ecology is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in ecology (ceglooy).

Definitions for ecology

noun

  1. the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.
  2. the set of relationships existing between organisms and their environment:
  3. the set of relationships existing between any complex system and its surroundings or environment:
  4. Also called human ecology. the branch of sociology concerned with the spacing and interdependence of people and institutions.
  5. advocacy for the protection of natural resources from pollution or its effects; environmentalism.

Origin of ecology

1870-75; earlier oecology German Ökologie Greek oîk(os) “house, dwelling” + -o- + German -logie -logy; term introduced by E. H. Haeckel

Examples for ecology

The youngest branch of Botany is ecology or the study of vegetation in relation to habitat—particularly soil in its widest sense.

In other words, criticism is a tiny part of the ecology of the music business, but an essential part.

None of Denes's issues, in art or politics or economics or ecology, are any less worth addressing today than 30 years ago.

And of course one needs to convince the French Ministries of Culture and of ecology that the application makes sense.

The wolf: the ecology and behavior of an endangered species.

ecology of the opossum on a natural area in northeastern Kansas.

The boat was also traced to the tsunami, Curt Hart of the Washington Department of ecology told The Daily Beast.

The lectures have featured such topics as the effect of temperature on chocolate, browning foods, and the ecology of farming.

The centipedes of the Chicago area with special reference to their ecology.

Stone Age—but that's partly an accident of ecology, isn't it?

Word Value for ecology
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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