- a combining form representing ecology in the formation of compounds (ecosystem; ecotype); also with the more general sense “environment,” “nature,” “natural habitat” (ecocide; ecolaw; ecopolitics).
combining form
- denoting ecology or ecologicalecocide; ecosphere
word-forming element referring to the environment and man’s relation to it, abstracted from ecology, ecological; attested from 1969.
pref.
- Ecology; ecological:ecosystem.