habitat
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Latin habitatbor. English habitat From Latin habitat (“it dwells, lives”), the 3rd person singular present active indicative form of habitō (“to live or dwell”). In Linnaeus and similar authors, the geographical ranges of species were customarily denoted in Latin by a sentence beginning with "Habitat", e.g. "Habitat in Europa" ("It lives in Europe"), and it thus became the convention to refer to the geographical range as the "habitat". Compare the English derivations of exit, floruit, ignoramus, and tenet from Latin finite verbs reanalyzed as English nouns.
- borrowed from habitat
Definitions
Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.
- This park offers important amphibian habitat and breeding area.
A range
A range; a place where a species naturally occurs.
A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features,…
A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
- rights-of-way are usually perceived as disturbance zones that provide a habitat and corridor for non-native species.
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A place in which a person lives.
- this book is just the impetus you need to clear the clutter and reorganize your habitat.
The neighborhood
- neighborhabitable
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at habitat. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at habitat. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at habitat
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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