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1958 Amer. Naturalist 92 130 The plant breeder and evolutionist alike have greater opportunity to produce entirely new forms fitted for very contrasting econiches.

1989 M. Day in J. R. Durant Human Origins ii. 11 A close fit of an animal to its ecological situation, its ‘econiche’ as the Americans call it, is a form of specialism.

2003 Human Biol. (Nexis) 1 Aug. 485 Such hybridization may seem unlikely to some, given differences in facial robusticity and morphology, dental size, and presumed econiche.