œcological

Adjective

 * 1) * 1899, L. Cockayne, Plant Geography of the Waimakariri, page 96:
 * Although the author had never set foot in New Zealand, yet, with the aid of a considerable number of herbarium specimens, and of whatever literature was available, he wrote an œcological account of the vegetation of New Zealand and its adjacent islands.
 * Although the author had never set foot in New Zealand, yet, with the aid of a considerable number of herbarium specimens, and of whatever literature was available, he wrote an œcological account of the vegetation of New Zealand and its adjacent islands.