Exact Match:
- ecosystem
- a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- aerobiology,
- agrobiology,
- anatomy,
- astrobiology,
- autecology,
- bacteriology,
- biochemics,
- biochemistry,
- biochemy,
- bioecology,
- biological science,
- biology,
- biometrics,
- biometry,
- bionics,
- biophysics,
- botany,
- cell physiology,
- cryobiology,
- cybernetics,
- cytology,
- ecoclimate,
- ecodeme,
- ecology,
- ecosystem,
- electrobiology,
- element,
- embryology,
- enzymology,
- ethnobiology,
- exobiology,
- genetics,
- gnotobiotics,
- life science,
- medium,
- microbiology,
- molecular biology,
- pharmacology,
- physiology,
- radiobiology,
- synecology,
- taxonomy,
- virology,
- xenobiology,
- zoology
- environment
collapse - the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround"
- the totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room" related words >
- ambience,
- ambient,
- atmosphere,
- backdrop,
- background,
- cincture,
- circling,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumcincture,
- circumflexion,
- circumjacence,
- circumposition,
- circumstances,
- climate,
- conditions,
- containment,
- context,
- ecosystem,
- embracement,
- encincture,
- encirclement,
- enclosure,
- encompassment,
- enfoldment,
- envelopment,
- environs,
- existing conditions,
- full particulars,
- girding,
- girdling,
- habitat,
- inclusion,
- ins and outs,
- involvement,
- locale,
- medium,
- milieu,
- mise-en-scene,
- set of conditions,
- setting,
- situation,
- status,
- status quo,
- surrounding,
- surroundings,
- territory,
- total situation,
- whole picture
- parasitism
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- the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage) related words >
- accompaniment,
- accordance,
- agreement,
- alliance,
- apple-polishing,
- ass-kissing,
- association,
- backscratching,
- bootlicking,
- brown-nosing,
- cahoots,
- co-working,
- coaction,
- coincidence,
- collaboration,
- collectivity,
- collusion,
- combination,
- combined effort,
- commensality,
- concert,
- concerted action,
- concomitance,
- concordance,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confluence,
- conjunction,
- consilience,
- conspiracy,
- cooperation,
- correspondence,
- cringing,
- ecology,
- ecosystem,
- fawnery,
- fawning,
- flunkyism,
- footlicking,
- groveling,
- handshaking,
- ingratiation,
- insinuation,
- junction,
- mealymouthedness,
- obeisance,
- obsequiousness,
- prostration,
- saprophytism,
- simultaneity,
- sponging,
- sycophancy,
- symbiosis,
- symbiotics,
- synchronism,
- synergy,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyism,
- truckling,
- tufthunting,
- union,
- united action
- ecology
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- the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment
- the environment as it relates to living organisms; "it changed the ecology of the island" related words >
- aerobiology,
- agrobiology,
- anatomy,
- animal physiology,
- anthropology,
- astrobiology,
- autecology,
- bacteriology,
- biochemics,
- biochemistry,
- biochemy,
- bioecology,
- biological science,
- biology,
- biometrics,
- biometry,
- bionics,
- bionomics,
- biophysics,
- botany,
- cell physiology,
- commensality,
- comparative anatomy,
- conchology,
- cryobiology,
- cybernetics,
- cytology,
- ecoclimate,
- ecodeme,
- ecosystem,
- electrobiology,
- element,
- embryology,
- entomology,
- enzymology,
- ethnobiology,
- ethology,
- exobiology,
- genetics,
- gnotobiotics,
- helminthology,
- herpetology,
- ichthyology,
- life science,
- malacology,
- mammalogy,
- medium,
- microbiology,
- molecular biology,
- ornithology,
- parasitism,
- pharmacology,
- physiology,
- protozoology,
- radiobiology,
- symbiosis,
- symbiotics,
- synecology,
- taxidermy,
- taxonomy,
- virology,
- xenobiology,
- zoogeography,
- zoography,
- zoology,
- zoonomy,
- zoopathology,
- zoophysics,
- zootaxy,
- zootomy
- symbiosis
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- the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other related words >
- accompaniment,
- accordance,
- agglomeration,
- agglutination,
- aggregation,
- agreement,
- alliance,
- articulation,
- association,
- bipartisanship,
- bond,
- bracketing,
- cahoots,
- clustering,
- co-working,
- coaction,
- coadjuvancy,
- coadministration,
- coagency,
- cochairmanship,
- codirectorship,
- coincidence,
- collaboration,
- collaborativeness,
- collectivism,
- collectivity,
- collusion,
- combination,
- combined effort,
- commensalism,
- commensality,
- common effort,
- common enterprise,
- communalism,
- communication,
- communism,
- communitarianism,
- community,
- complicity,
- concatenation,
- concert,
- concerted action,
- concomitance,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confluence,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- connection,
- consilience,
- conspiracy,
- convergence,
- cooperation,
- cooperativeness,
- copulation,
- correspondence,
- coupling,
- duet,
- duumvirate,
- ecology,
- ecosystem,
- ecumenicalism,
- ecumenicism,
- ecumenism,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- gathering,
- harmony,
- hookup,
- intercommunication,
- intercourse,
- interlinking,
- joinder,
- joining,
- joining of forces,
- joint effort,
- joint operation,
- jointure,
- junction,
- knotting,
- liaison,
- linkage,
- linking,
- marriage,
- mass action,
- meeting,
- merger,
- merging,
- morale,
- mutual assistance,
- mutualism,
- mutuality,
- octet,
- pairing,
- parasitism,
- pooling,
- pooling of resources,
- pulling together,
- quartet,
- quintet,
- reciprocity,
- saprophytism,
- septet,
- sextet,
- simultaneity,
- solidarity,
- splice,
- symbiotics,
- synchronism,
- synergism,
- synergy,
- team spirit,
- teamwork,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- trio,
- triumvirate,
- troika,
- unification,
- union,
- united action,
- yoking
- element
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- the most favorable environment for a plant or animal; "water is the element of fishes"
- a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone
- the situation in which you are happiest and most effective; "in your element"
- one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe; "the alchemists believed that there were four elements" related words >
- acid,
- acidity,
- addend,
- adjunct,
- agent,
- air,
- alkali,
- alkalinity,
- alloisomer,
- americium,
- anion,
- antacid,
- antecedents,
- antilogarithm,
- appurtenance,
- argument,
- article,
- aspect,
- astatine,
- atmosphere,
- atom,
- atomic particles,
- autecology,
- base,
- basic,
- basics,
- basis,
- berkelium,
- binomial,
- biochemical,
- bioecology,
- bionomics,
- brute matter,
- building block,
- burner,
- caliduct,
- call,
- case,
- cation,
- causation,
- cause,
- cause and effect,
- characteristic,
- chemical,
- chemical element,
- chromoisomer,
- circumstance,
- coefficient,
- combination,
- complement,
- component,
- compound,
- congruence,
- constant,
- constituent,
- contents,
- cooker,
- cookery,
- copolymer,
- cosine,
- cotangent,
- count,
- cube,
- curium,
- datum,
- decimal,
- denominator,
- derivative,
- detail,
- determinant,
- determinative,
- difference,
- differential,
- dimer,
- discriminate,
- dividend,
- divisor,
- domain,
- e,
- earth,
- ecoclimate,
- ecodeme,
- ecology,
- ecosystem,
- einsteinium,
- elementary particle,
- elementary unit,
- elements,
- environment,
- equation,
- essential,
- essentials,
- etiology,
- exponent,
- exponential,
- facet,
- fact,
- factor,
- feature,
- fermium,
- fire,
- fixings,
- formula,
- francium,
- function,
- fundamental,
- fundamental particle,
- fundamentals,
- furnace,
- gas jet,
- ground,
- grounds,
- habitat,
- hahnium,
- heater,
- heating duct,
- heavy chemicals,
- high polymer,
- homopolymer,
- hydracid,
- hyle,
- hypostasis,
- i,
- incidental,
- increment,
- index,
- ingredient,
- inorganic chemical,
- instance,
- integral,
- integrant,
- ion,
- isomer,
- item,
- jet,
- locale,
- macromolecule,
- makings,
- material,
- material world,
- materiality,
- matrix,
- matter,
- medium,
- mendelevium,
- metamer,
- minor detail,
- minuend,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- molecule,
- monad,
- monomer,
- multiple,
- multiplier,
- natural world,
- nature,
- neptunium,
- neutralizer,
- nonacid,
- norm,
- numerator,
- occasion,
- organic chemical,
- oxyacid,
- parameter,
- part,
- part and parcel,
- particular,
- permutation,
- physical world,
- pi,
- piece,
- pilot light,
- plenum,
- plutonium,
- point,
- polonium,
- polymer,
- polynomial,
- power,
- principle,
- principles,
- promethium,
- protactinium,
- pseudoisomer,
- quaternion,
- quotient,
- radical,
- radium,
- radix,
- radon,
- reagent,
- reciprocal,
- regard,
- remainder,
- respect,
- root,
- rudiments,
- secant,
- segment,
- sine,
- situation,
- specialty,
- sphere,
- steam pipe,
- stimulus,
- stove,
- stuff,
- submultiple,
- substance,
- substratum,
- subtrahend,
- sulfacid,
- synecology,
- tangent,
- technetium,
- tensor,
- territory,
- tewel,
- the four elements,
- thing,
- trimer,
- tuyere,
- unit,
- unit of being,
- uranium,
- variable,
- vector,
- versine,
- warmer,
- water
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