ECOLOGICAL NICHE

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Meaning:

(ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)

Synonyms:

ecological niche; niche

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("ecological niche" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Domain category:

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