habitat
Betekenis (Engels)
- (uncountable) Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.
- (countable) A range; a place where a species naturally occurs.
- (countable) A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
- (countable, uncountable) A place in which a person lives.
Sinonieme
place of origin
place of living
place of habitation
breeding place
best place
living environment
field of activities
area of activity
range of behavior
natural environment
passenger compartment
natural abode
habitat of a species
Vertalings
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈhæbɪtæt/
Etimologie (Engels)
From Latin habitat (“it dwells, lives”), the 3rd person singular present active indicative form of habitō (“I live or dwell”). In Linnaeus and similar authors, the geographical ranges of species were customarily denoted in Latin by a sentence beginning with "Habitat", e.g. "Habitat in Europa" ("It lives in Europe"), and it thus became the convention to refer to the geographical range as the "habitat". Compare the English derivations of exit, floruit, ignoramus, and tenet from Latin finite verbs reanalyzed as English nouns.
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