GRE Word List

ECOSYSTEM

the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit

The meaning of the word ecosystem is the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit.

Random words

WordMeaning
aboriginalbeing the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region
febrilemarked or caused by fever : feverish
obsequya funeral or burial rite
spoofdeceive
mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
opportunistone that is opportunistic or that practices opportunism
grovelto creep with the face to the ground : crawl
residualremainder
commonplacecommonly found or seen : ordinary
usagefirmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure