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BIOTIC COMMUNITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
Synonyms:
biotic community; community
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("biotic community" is a kind of...):
group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)
Domain category:
bionomics; ecology; environmental science (the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biotic community"):
biome (a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate)
