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ecol

ecol is the abbreviation of ecology.

Meaning of ecology

Noun

ecology (countable and uncountable, plural ecologies)

  1. 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
  2. (broadly) Any study of the relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.
    • social ecology
  3. The totality or pattern of relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.

Questions about ecol

What is ecol the abbreviation of?
Ecol is the abbreviation of ecology.

Words near ecol in the dictionary

  1. ecoimperialist
  2. ecoimperialists
  3. ecoinformatic
  4. ecoinformatics
  5. ecojustice
  6. ecol
  7. ecol.
  8. ecolabel
  9. ecolabeling
  10. ecolabelling
  11. ecolabels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ecol (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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