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English Dictionary: habitat by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
habitat
n
  1. the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs; "a marine habitat"; "he felt safe on his home grounds"
    Synonym(s): habitat, home ground
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Habitat \Hab`i*tat\, n. [L., it dwells, fr. habitare. See
      {Habit}, v. t.]
      1. (Biol.) The natural abode, locality or region of an animal
            or plant.
  
      2. Place where anything is commonly found.
  
                     This word has its habitat in Oxfordshire. --Earle.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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)
  
  
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