hexiology

Meaning

Noun

  • The science dealing with the relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.

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Origin

  • From Ancient Greek ἕξις ("state or habit") + . Coined in 1894 by an English naturalist, St. George Jackson Mivart.

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