BIOTIC COMMUNITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other

Synonyms:

biotic community; community

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("biotic community" is a kind of...):

group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)

Domain category:

bionomics; ecology; environmental science (the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biotic community"):

biome (a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate)