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noun
- A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.
- The interconnectedness of organisms (plants, animals, microbes) with each other and their environment.
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| ectocommensal |
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noun
- A commensal organism that lives on the surface of another organism
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| EIR |
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initialism - Excess Information Rate
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| emergent |
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adjective
- emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent
- occurring unexpectedly or in an emergency
- Observable in a high-level view of a complex system but barely deducible from the description of its components
(wikipedia, emergence)
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| endangered species |
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noun
- A species which has almost gone extinct.
- The federal government has added five new birds to the list.
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| endobiotic |
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adjective
- (context, of a parasite or symbiont) living within the tissues of a host
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| endosymbiont |
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noun
- Ecology. An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
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| endosymbiosis |
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noun (endosymbioses)
- (ecology) A condition of living within the body or cells of another organism.
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| Environment |
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proper noun
- (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
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| epizoic |
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adjective
- living or growing on the external surface of an animal (not always as a parasite)
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| eutrophic |
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noun
- (medicine) a eutrophic medicine
adjective
- (context, of a swamp etc) being rich in nutrients and minerals and therefore having an excessive growth of algae and thus a diminished oxygen content to the detriment of other organisms
- (medicine) promoting nutrition
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