Noun ecology has 2 senses
  1. ecology - the environment as it relates to living organisms; "it changed the ecology of the island"
    --1 is a kind of
    environment
  2. ecology, bionomics, environmental science - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment
    --2 is a kind of biology, biological science
    --2 has particulars: paleoecology, palaeoecology
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