habitat
Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.
Example
“This park offers important amphibian habitat and breeding area.”
Other meanings
A range; a place where a species naturally occurs.
A terrestrial or aquatic area distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
Synonyms
- home ground
Related words
- agrohabitat
- habitative
- habitat loss
- habitat pole
- interhabitat
- intrahabitat
- macrohabitat
- megahabitat
- mesohabitat
- microhabitat
- multihabitat
- nonhabitat
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "habitat" (it dwells, lives).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “habitat” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.