hab·i·tat

(hăb′ĭ-tăt′)

a. The natural environment in which a species or group of species lives: good coyote habitat; managing wildlife habitat.

b. A particular kind of natural environment: woodland and prairie habitats.

c. An artificial environment created for an animal to live in: the lion habitat at the zoo.

2. A structure that affords a controlled environment for living in extremely inhospitable locations, such as an underwater research laboratory.

3. The place where a person lives or is most likely to be found: "This park became his habitat—a bench-sitter at 17" (Neal Cassady).

[Latin, it dwells, third person sing. present of habitāre, to dwell; see habitable.]

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habitat

(ˈhæbɪˌtæt)

1. (Biology) the environment in which an animal or plant normally lives or grows

2. (Sociology) the place in which a person, group, class, etc, is normally found

[C18: from Latin: it inhabits, from habitāre to dwell, from habēre to have]

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hab•i•tat

(ˈhæb ɪˌtæt)

n.

1. the natural environment of an organism; place that is natural for the life and growth of an organism: a jungle habitat.

2. the place where one is usu. found.

3. a special environment for living in over an extended period, as an underwater research vessel.

4. habitation (def. 1).

[1755–65; < Latin: it inhabits, 3rd singular present indic. of habitāre, frequentative of habēre to have, hold]

hab·i·tat

(hăb′ĭ-tăt′)

The area or natural environment in which an animal or plant normally lives, such as a desert, coral reef, or freshwater lake. A habitat can often be home to many different organisms.

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habitat

The type of place where an animal or plant normally lives.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

habitat - the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"

home ground

environs, surround, surroundings, environment - the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround"

habitation - the native habitat or home of an animal or plant

habitat

noun home, environment, surroundings, element, territory, domain, terrain, locality, home ground, abode, habitation, natural home In its natural habitat, the hibiscus will grow up to 25ft.

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habitat

noun

The natural environment of an animal or plant:

haunt, home, stamping ground.

Translations

بيئَه طبيعِيَّه

domovvýskytiště

levested

Habitat Heimat Lebensraum

hábitat

habitat

elõfordulási hely

habitat

kjörlendi

habitat

habitat tilholdssted voksested

habitat

habitat

среда обитания

miesto výskytu

doğal çevrehabitat

产地栖息地

habitat

[ˈhæbɪtæt] N → hábitat m

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habitat

[ˈhæbɪtæt] n → habitat m
in their natural habitat → dans leur habitat naturel

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habitat

n → Heimat f; (of animals also) → Lebensraum m

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habitat

[ˈhæbɪˌtæt] n → habitat m inv

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habitable

(ˈhӕbitəbl) adjective

(negative unhabitable) (usually of buildings) fit to be lived in. The house is no longer habitable – the roof is collapsing.

ˈhabitat (-tӕt) noun

the natural home of an animal or plant. The Antarctic is the penguin's natural habitat.

ˌhabiˈtation noun

the act of living in (a building etc). These houses are not fit for human habitation.

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The streams were deep and slow, and there were holes of abysmal depth, where any kind and size of antediluvian monster could find a habitat. In places, which now we can see from our windows, were mud-holes a hundred or more feet deep.

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The Fire People must have increased in numbers until they pressed uncomfortably against the bounds of their habitat. They were expanding, and in the course of their expanding they drove the Folk before them, and settled down themselves in the caves and occupied the territory that we had occupied.

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"I tell you," repeated his companion, with a thick tongue, "that I don't live in the Rue des Mauvaises Paroles, indignus qui inter mala verba habitat .

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The wilderness was his natural habitat and woodcraft as inherent to him as breathing.

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In the dirt floor near the wall were two or three holes resembling the mouths of burrows--doubtless the habitat of the giant Martian rat.

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With the termination of the adventure, we began to speculate upon the explanation of the presence of this savage brute at large so great a distance from its native habitat. My readings had taught me that it was practically unknown outside of Asia, and that, so late as the twentieth century, at least, there had been no savage beasts outside captivity in England.

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`Beneath my feet, then, the earth must be tunnelled enormously, and these tunnellings were the habitat of the new race.

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The way to it was such that I knew no extremely formidable beast could frequent it, nor was it large enough to make a comfortable habitat for any but the smaller mammals or reptiles.

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As for a habitat, if I were not permitted still to squat, I might purchase one acre at the same price for which the land I cultivated was sold -- namely, eight dollars and eight cents.

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Of course I refrained from mentioning name or habitat, drawing the picture in an impersonal, composite sort of way, which none the less blinded no one to the faithfulness of the local color.

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But he satisfied himself in a very short time that Miss Day had nothing in common with the heroine of that work save certain signs of habitat and climate--and save, further, the fact that the male sex wasn't terrible to her.

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Eucalyptus they were, but not the royal monarchs that their brothers are in native habitats. Poorly planted, by politics, illy attended, by politics, decimated and many times repeatedly decimated by the hostile forces of their environment, a straggling corporal's guard of survivors, they thrust their branches, twisted and distorted, as if writhing in agony, into the air.

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