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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ecology /ɪˈkɒlədʒi, ɛ-/
noun the branch of biology concerned with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
– derivatives
ecological adjective,
ecologically adverb,
ecologist noun.
– origin C19 (orig. as oecology): from Gk oikos ‘house’ + -logy.



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