noun
- Plural of oecology; the study of organisms and their relationships with their environment and with each other.
Usage: Archaic or variant spelling of 'ecologies'; rarely used in modern English.; More commonly spelled 'ecologies' in contemporary usage.
Examples
- The oecologies of different forest regions were compared in the 19th-century naturalist's work.
- Early scientific texts sometimes used the spelling 'oecologies' before the modern 'ecologies' became standard.