ecosystem

1. 1.

   a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment

   Broadersystem

Other forms of ecosystem

plural

ecosystems·

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.

Questions about ecosystem

What does ecosystem mean?

ecosystem means "a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment".

How many syllables are in ecosystem?

ecosystem has 4 syllables: e-co-sys-tem. The stress falls on "e". In IPA it is /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/.

Is ecosystem a common word?

ecosystem is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ecosystem?

2 words rhyme with ecosystem. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.