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say it: EE-koh-si-stuhm
ecosystem is a noun meaning "a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment". It is pronounced /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/ — EE-koh-si-stuhm. It carries one recorded sense.
a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ecosystem come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.