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Environment vs Hydrobious - What's the difference?

environment | hydrobious |

As a noun environment

is the surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.

As an adjective hydrobious is

adapted to living or dwelling in water, or in the vicinity of water; dependent upon a water environment for survival; aquatic.

environment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
  • The natural world or ecosystem.
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  • All the elements over which a designer has no control and that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
  • A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
  • (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
  • (programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
  • (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * environ * environmentalist * environmentalism

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    hydrobious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adapted to living or dwelling in water, or in the vicinity of water; dependent upon a water environment for survival; aquatic.

    • References

    * "Nowadays, the abandonment of these irrigation systems and the growing urbanization of the Palermo Plain have fragmented increasingly the remaining populations of hydrobious fauna, including those of the Painted Frog." -- Retrieved 10/08/2007 from Morbe3 Biology & Conservation * "the three gems of Rebbuqqa, symbols of the batrachian goddess in her three aspects: zoöphorous egg; hydrobious tadpole; and chthonic toad." -- Retrieved 10/08/2007 from The Gems of Rebbuqqa