ECOLOGY

ecology, bionomics, environmental science

(noun) the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment

ecology

(noun) the environment as it relates to living organisms; “it changed the ecology of the island”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

ecology (countable and uncountable, plural ecologies)

(biology) The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.

Hyponyms

• agroecology

• autecology

• chemical ecology

• dendroecology

• ethnoecology

• geoecology

• hydroecology

• macroecology

• myrmecology

• palaeoecology

• paleoecology

• photoecology

• radioecology

• restoration ecology

• social ecology

• socioecology

• synecology

Source: Wiktionary



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24 November 2024

CUNT

(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”


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Coffee Trivia

An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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