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- noun The sum of human knowledge concerning the relations of an organism to its environment.
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- noun The study of the mutual interrelationships between organisms and their environment; branch of
biology ; former term forecology - noun The environmental or sociological influence on a person
Etymologies
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meso- + -logy; a compound with components derived from Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, "meso-, middle") + -λογία (-logía, "-logy, branch of study"). The term arose in various European languages c. 1850, but did not exist in Ancient Greek.
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