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habitat

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Word definitions for habitat in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds" [syn: home ground ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Habitat \Hab"i*tat\ (h[a^]b"[i^]*t[a^]t), n. [L., it dwells, fr. habitare. See Habit , v. t.] (Biol.) The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or plant. Place where anything is commonly found. This word has its habitat in Oxfordshire. --Earle.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES habitat destruction (= of the natural homes of plants and animals ) ▪ Habitat destruction has reduced elephant herds in central Africa. wildlife habitats ▪ the destruction of wildlife habitats COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Habitat is a 1997 science fiction film produced for the direct-to-video market and shown on the Sci Fi Channel . The film's message is largely one of ecological warning, mixed with science fiction elements of genetic engineering, family angst and redemption. ...

Usage examples of habitat.

They knew there would be acceleration again, if the Movable Feast were not to plummet through the inside surface of the habitat and out into space.

This important plant holds the soils of riparian habitats and also creates fertile micro-climates, adapting its shape and behavior to the amount of moisture it can get and to the elevation in which it grows, which relates then to the temperature that it must endure.

It was not unusual for these meetings to be held by the lakeside, rather than in the great hall of the Shadowleague headquarters, because the Afanc, who was Chief Loremaster for all water-dwellers, could not leave his watery habitat.

Like a guard marching prisoners into a POW compound, Akers strode behind the four of them as they walked toward the habitat.

Lieutenant Akers saw you put one under that rover, and my guess was that you took the opportunity once you were inside the habitat to bury a few more.

Because they evolved rapidly, had worldwide distribution by virtue of their open-water habitats, and species are readily distinguished, ammonoids are index fossils for the Jurassic.

Like an Edenist habitat, nobody lived on the cavern floor itself, it was a communal park and arable farm.

It would be very difficult to obtain a strain of Ebola, but it would be easier to obtain strains of arenaviruses from rodents in their natural habitat.

Many are the indications that our autocthonous predecessors saw a very great deal of the intimate habits of the flora and the fauna and the avifauna, and spoke freely of them, and attributed in their legendary many of these habitsmuch of the particular form and colour, and even habitat, to the influences of supernatural beings and occurrences.

His comments on the habitats of certain avifauna were matters to which he had given wholehearted consideration.

Too much like that big-arena stuff Mobius Caduceus did up in the orbital habitat.

Neutrally Buoyant First Order Ubiquitous Climax Clade Gas-Giant Dwellers, to grant them a still more painfully precise specification - were large creatures of immense age who lived within the deliriously complex and topologically vast civilisation of great antiquity which was distributed throughout the cloud layers wrapping the enormous gas-giant planet, a habitat that was as stupendous in scale as it was changeable in aerography.

All Downer work crews, report to your section habitats at once and wait for someone to direct you.

If they are varelse, Ender, then let the buggers use up their habitat, and it will mean no more to you than the displacement of anthills or cattle herds to make way for cities.

I had to hang up, but half an hour later Yuri Glinkov, their director of operations, was on the line, promising me that his huge Energia boosters could do anything I wanted them to do, yes even get an orbital habitat into geosynchronous orbit.