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2. Noun. (archaic spelling of (ecology)) ¹

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Definition of Oecology

1. ecology [n -GIES] - See also: ecology

Medical Definition of Oecology

1. The various relations of animals and plants to one another and to the outer world. Origin: Gr. House. (04 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oecology

Literary usage of Oecology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Its oecology and flora. The broad-leaved summer-forest of the Mississippi and of the Atlantic plain. Forests of North Carolina according to WW Ashe. ii. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"oecology. or ECOLOGY (from Gr. otras, house, and Xoros, department of science), that part of the science of biology which treats of the adaptation of plants ..."

3. Proceedings of the Annual Conference by Indiana Science Teachers' Association, American Society of University Composers (1899)
"This will call in more or less physiology, oecology, description and ... Under oecology specially these questions are always interesting: why plants are not ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"The failure of zoologists to cultivate the province of their science corresponding to the 'oecology' of the botanists is more apparent than real for a ..."

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