ecological
adj/ˌiːkəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkl̩/
Etymology From ecology + -ical.
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Relating to ecology, the interrelationships of organisms and their environment.
- Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
- To get doomier still, there’s also the pertinent question of whether, given current ecological speculation, the human race will even survive beyond the next century or so – an uncertainty which makes applying one’s imagination to a 22nd or 23rd Century rather academic.2019 May 14, Hugh Montgomery, “HBO's Years & Years and the horrors of the near-near-future”, in BBC:
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Not harmful to the environment.
- Derived terms
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aeroecological, agroecological, antiecological, astroecological, bioecological, chemicoecological, chemoecological, chronoecological, dendroecological, ecoburb, ecological footprint, ecological grief, ecologically, ecological pyramid, ecological service, ecosan, ecotage, ecoteur, ethnoecological, geoecological, hydroecological, immunoecological, macroecological, microecological, morphoecological, nonecological, paleoecological, pedoecological, physioecological, phytoecological, psychoecological, radioecological, socioecological, subecological, thermoecological, unecological, visuoecological- Related terms
- ecologic, ecologist, ecosystem, ecologically