Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An erroneous form for
hexiology .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.
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- noun obsolete The
science dealing with therelations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek ἕξις (eksis, "state or habit") + -ology. Coined in 1894 by an English naturalist, St. George Jackson Mivart.
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