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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The study of the interrelationship between an organism's physical functioning and its environment.

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  • noun biology The study of the relationships between, and adaptation of, the physiology of an organism and its environment

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eco- +‎ physiology

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