hexiology
Meanings
noun
- The science dealing with the relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.
Word forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἕξις (héxis, “state or habit”) + -ology. Coined in 1894 by an English naturalist, St. George Jackson Mivart.
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