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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings;
- Example: "environmental factors"

2. concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment;
- Example: "environmental pollution"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

environmental \environmental\ adj. 1. of or pertaining to the environment; as, environmental factors. [WordNet 1.5] 2. of or pertaining to the environment (definition 2); as, environmental pollution; environmental disaster; environmental cleanup; environmental deterioration. [WordNet 1.5] THOUSANDS of dead fish and other marine species, suffocated by a rotting, glutinous morass which spreads over kilometres of coral reefs. This scenario has all the hallmarks of a unnatural environmental disaster resulting from environmental negligence. However this isn't the case, instead the cause -- coral spawn slick deoxygenation -- is a natural event which has the potential to occur periodically on the reefs of the West Pilbara. --Michael Borowitzka ("Natural event spawns environmental disaster" in Murdoch News, October 12, 1995)
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

environmental adj 1: of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings; "environmental factors" 2: concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment; "environmental pollution"