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habitat


hab·i·tat  (hb-tt)
n.
1. The area or environment where an organism or ecological community normally lives or occurs: a marine habitat.
2. The place where a person or thing is most likely to be found.
3. A structure that affords a controlled environment for living in extremely inhospitable locations, such as an underwater research laboratory.

[Latin, it dwells, third person sing. present of habitre, to dwell; see habitable.]

habitat [ˈhæbɪˌtæt]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) the environment in which an animal or plant normally lives or grows
2. (Sociology) the place in which a person, group, class, etc., is normally found
[from Latin: it inhabits, from habitāre to dwell, from habēre to have]

habitat  (hb-tt)
The area or natural environment in which an organism or population normally lives. A habitat is made up of physical factors such as soil, moisture, range of temperature, and availability of light as well as biotic factors such as the availability of food and the presence of predators. A habitat is not necessarily a geographic areafor a parasitic organism it is the body of its host or even a cell within the hosts body.


habitat  /hbtt/  n. (in biology) the area in which an animal or plant normally lives: The habitat for deer is mainly the valley, not the mountains. habitat

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