HABITAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does habitat mean? 

• HABITAT (noun)
  The noun HABITAT has 1 sense:

1. the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs

  Familiarity information: HABITAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HABITAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

habitat; home ground

Context example:

he felt safe on his home grounds

Hypernyms ("habitat" is a kind of...):

environment; environs; surround; surroundings (the area in which something exists or lives)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "habitat"):

habitation (the native habitat or home of an animal or plant)

 Context examples 

The habitats and ranges of snowshoe hares and white spruces overlap.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

Pandas have specific habitat needs—they live in gently sloping areas far from human populations.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

But mushrooms of the same species can vary in appearance, especially at different life stages and habitats, making them very difficult to identify.

(New Test Identifies Poisonous Mushrooms, Agricultural Research Service)

F. ulcerans causes ulcers in humans located in tropical nations however, this bacteria's natural habitat is unknown.

(Fusobacterium ulcerans, NCI Thesaurus)

The largest effects are found in the smallest and most isolated fragments of habitat.

(Shrinking habitats have adverse effects on world ecosystems, NSF)

Decreasing oxygen concentrations will limit the ocean depth that fish can occupy, leading to habitat compression.

(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)

The wider the area, the more space becomes available to the creation of varied habitats, and this is one of the keys to fish diversity.

(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)

It therefore found in a wide variety of habitats: volcanic terrains, lava-strewn coasts, and clearings or limestone outcrops.

(Morinda citrifolia, NCI Thesaurus)

E raffinosus has been identified in numerous human specimens associated with bacteremia though its natural habitat has not been identified.

(Enterococcus raffinosus, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists and policymakers are just beginning to understand the global importance of coastal seagrass habitats.

(Sharks, the seagrass protectors, National Science Foundation)