Habitat

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Habitat \Hab"i*tat\ (h[a^]b"[i^]*t[a^]t), n. [L., it dwells, fr.
     habitare. See {Habit}, v. t.]
     1. (Biol.) The natural abode, locality or region of an animal
        or plant.
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     2. Place where anything is commonly found.
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              This word has its habitat in Oxfordshire. --Earle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  habitat
       n : the type of environment in which an organism or group
           normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt
           safe on his home grounds" [syn: {home ground}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "habitat":
     abode, alentours, ambience, ambit, bailiwick, borderlands, circle,
     circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, compass,
     context, domain, element, entourage, environing circumstances,
     environment, environs, gestalt, haunt, home, locale, locality,
     milieu, native environment, neighborhood, outposts, outskirts,
     perimeter, periphery, precincts, purlieus, range, realm, site,
     situation, stamping ground, suburbs, surroundings, terrain,
     territory, total environment, vicinage, vicinity
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Habitat
       
           The original term for on-line graphical
          {virtual communities} or worlds.  Created at Lucasfilm in 1985
          by Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar.
       
          {(http://www.communities.com/habitat.html)}.
       
          (1996-06-12)