habitat
英検2級・TOEFL・大学受験生息地、生息地。生態学の基本語、生息地（natural ~）
意味
- (動・植物の)産地,生息地
例文
Their habitat is threatened by deforestation.
彼らの生息地は、森林破壊に脅かされています。
語源
ラテン語で「（それは）住んでいる」という文の形。動植物の説明で住む場所をこの語で書き出したことから「生息地」。
habit（習慣）、inhabit（住む）と同じ仲間。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Latin habitat (“it dwells, lives”), the 3rd person singular present active indicative form of habitō (“to live or dwell”). In Linnaeus and similar authors, the geographical ranges of species were customarily denoted in Latin by a sentence beginning with "Habitat", e.g. "Habitat in Europa" ("It lives in Europe"), and it thus became the convention to refer to the geographical range as the "habitat". Compare the English derivations of exit, floruit, ignoramus, and tenet from Latin finite verbs reanalyzed as English nouns.