In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
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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FELLOW
(noun) a member of a learned society; “he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association”
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