ecodisaster

noun

Etymology

From eco- + disaster.

  1. derived from *h₂stḗr
  2. derived from ἄστρον
  3. derived from astrum
  4. derived from disastro
  5. derived from desastre
  6. prefixed as ecodisaster — “eco + disaster

Definitions

  1. An ecological disaster.

    • The college had been suing in state and federal courts for twenty years to preserve this wetland from the "ecodisaster" of drainage and development as a medium-security prison.
    • Novelists like Michael Crichton have imagined nanoscale robots creating an ecodisaster.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ecodisaster. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA