phytoecologyn.
/ˌfʌɪtəʊᵻˈkɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˈˌfaɪdoʊˌiˈkɑlədʒi/, /ˈˌfaɪdoʊəˈkɑlədʒi/ The branch of biology concerned with the relations of plants with their environment; plant ecology.
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the world > plants > botany > [noun] > specific branches or aspects of botany
phytognomy1643
topology1659
vegetable statics1691
cryptogamy1783
fossil botany1822
nomology1825
structural botany1835
phytochemistry1837
phytochimy1847
phytogeography1847
astrobotany1851
phytonomy1851
phytophysiology1854
palaeophytology1857
phytobiology1860
phytopathology1864
plant physiology1870
palaeobotany1872
plant geography1878
phytopalaeontology1879
plant pathology1891
ethnobotany1896
floristic1898
phyteconomy1898
phytoteratology1898
phytoecology1899
geobotany1904
phytosociology1917
archaeobotany1954
palaeoethnobotany1959
1899 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 99 One of the general views of phytoecology is that the forms of plants are modified to adapt them to the conditions under which they exist.
1921 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 8 323 Phyto-ecology, the science of plant response to environment.
1994 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 21 605/2 This study was based on results obtained from the upper Rhine valley (North East France) from twenty years of team work in phyto-ecology, biogeography, pedology and geomorphology.
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phytoecoˈlogical adj.
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1905 Science 17 Mar. 424/2 Every person seriously interested in peat-bogs.., whether it be from a geological, a phyto-ecological or an economic standpoint [etc.].
1997 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 84 123/1 Crete is well documented from floristic and phytoecological viewpoints.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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