œcology
œcology is the archaic spelling of ecology.
Meaning of ecology
Noun
ecology (countable and uncountable, plural ecologies)
- The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
- As a graduate student, he was working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area. He had to investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and animals in this region.1949, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
- Any study of the relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.
- social ecology
- The totality or pattern of relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.
Forms of œcology
| plural | œcologies |
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Questions about œcology
- What is œcology the archaic spelling of?
- Œcology is the archaic spelling of ecology.
Words near œcology in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: œcology (page history and authors); ecology (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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