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œcological ‎(not comparable)

Obsolete form of ecological.
- 1899, L. Cockayne, Plant Geography of the Waimakariri, page 96:
  Although the author had never set foot in New Zealand, yet, with the aid of a considerable number of herbarium specimens, and of whatever literature was available, he wrote an œcological account of the vegetation of New Zealand and its adjacent islands.