environmental science

1. 1.

   the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment

   Synonymsecologybionomics

   Broaderbiology

   Narrowerpaleoecology

Questions about environmental science

What does environmental science mean?

environmental science means "the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment".

What is another word for environmental science?

Close synonyms include ecology, bionomics. 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 environmental science a common word?

environmental science 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.