ecological niche

1. 1.

   (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)

   Synonymsniche

   Broadercondition

   ecology

Questions about ecological niche

What does ecological niche mean?

ecological niche means "(ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)".

What is another word for ecological niche?

Close synonyms include niche. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ecological niche a common word?

ecological niche is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.