ecology Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the environment as it relates to living organisms
    • it changed the ecology of the island
  2. noun the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment
    bionomics; environmental science.

WordNet

OE*col"o*gy noun (Also<
  • OEcology
  • Ecology
)
Etymology
Gr. house + -logy.
Definitions
  1. (Biol.) The various relations of animals and plants to one another and to the outer world.

Webster 1913