ecosystem
noun
a system, or a group of interconnected elements, formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment.
ecosystems
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pluralof ecosystem.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The discovery raises the possibility that other coral ecosystems along West Africa may have been overlooked, forgotten, or never documented in the first place.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
What makes Indonesian Borneo's wildfires particularly worrying is that they are burning through one of the world's largest tropical peatland ecosystems.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
There’s an inventiveness here that comes from the sprawl of the city — artists like myself who are constantly improvising, building their own ecosystems because nothing is handed to them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Around 100 wells are located in Uganda's largest and oldest national park, Murchison Falls, and there are fears of leaks from the pipeline that crosses fragile and highly biodiverse ecosystems and wildlife migration routes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
My cells are no longer the pure line entities I was raised with; they are ecosystems more complex than Jamaica Bay.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
