hexiology

== English == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἕξις (héxis, “state or habit”) + -ology. Coined in 1894 by an English naturalist, St. George Jackson Mivart. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Why was this page moved? I believe Mivart's coinage was hexicology with a c”) === Noun === hexiology (uncountable) (obsolete) The science dealing with the relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally. ==== Synonyms ==== ecology