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