MEANING
An area distinguished by relatively consistent ecological conditions, communities, or patterns.
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- forest ecoregion
- coastal ecoregion
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The forest ecoregion ended where the soil became salt-rich.
The survey placed the valley in a different ecoregion from the upland plateau.
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- ecoregion
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Primary category: environment. Forms: Singular ecoregion; plural ecoregions. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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