ecology
pronunciation
How to pronounce ecology in British English:
UK [iˈkɒlədʒi]
How to pronounce ecology in American English:
US [iˈkɑːlədʒi]
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- Noun:
- the environment as it relates to living organisms
- the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment
Word Origin
- ecology
- ecology: [19] Interpreted literally, ecology means ‘study of houses’. The word was coined, as ökologie, by the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel in the 1870s, on the basis of Greek oikos (as in economy). This means literally ‘house’, but Haeckel was using it in the wider sense ‘dwelling, habitat’. English adopted the word soon after its coinage, originally in the quasi- Latin form oecology.=> economy
- ecology (n.)
- 1873, oecology, "branch of science dealing with the relationship of living things to their environments," coined in German by German zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) as Ökologie, from Greek oikos "house, dwelling place, habitation" (see villa) + -logia "study of" (see -logy). In use with reference to anti-pollution activities from 1960s.
Example
- 1. The commitment to ecology and national parks ?
- 2. Another such site is the ecology fund .
- 3. The research appears in the august issue of the journal ecology .
- 4. India is too vast and its cultures and ecology too diverse .
- 5. But for a week , all of them were immersed in ecology and ancestral culture .