conservational
- adjective
- /kənˌsɜːrvəˈʃənl/
- Effective conservational strategies are essential for protecting endangered species and their habitats.
Examples
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Hydraulic engineer Eddy Langendoen is using field studies and a computer modeling technique he created called "CONCEPTS" (Conservational Channel Evolution and Pollutant Transport System) to assess the stability of specific channel reaches.
Academic text (2006) -
The second control consisted of students who attended an outdoor education program at a zoological garden; the program highlighted cognitive values but did not address conservational and/or environmental topics.
Academic text (1998) -
Study design and time frame of the evaluation (T-1, T-2) for both types of intervention as well as for both types of control (Control 1: without any outdoor education program; Control 2: with outdoor education that did not have environmental or conservational context).
Academic text (1998) -
However, all selected items did not address specialized knowledge; some covered ecological and conservational issues of the program that could also be answered without intervention (e.g., "Dead wood is useless and should be cut for firewood" and "The age of a tree could be evaluated without damaging the tree").
Academic text (1998) -
What warranted the singling out of this particular black monochrome was that it had been deemed "irreparably damaged" and "unexhibitable" and donated by AXA Art Insurance Corporation in 2000 to the museum's collection as a "study painting" for conservational science.
Academic text (2014) -
Yet it might still be salvaged as an opportune teaching moment, something to learn from—ostensibly toward better conservational treatment of monochromes—at the same time invoking the disciplinarian tone of something being made an example of.
Academic text (2014) -
The conservational practices adopted by the community helped preserve the local wildlife.
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She attended a conservational workshop to learn more about sustainable environmental practices.
Surface Forms
Morphology
conservational = conservation (transparent) = conserv + ation + al
The word is a regular adjective formed from the noun 'conservation' plus '-al', so its meaning is directly recoverable from its parts.
Etymology
Conservational comes from conserve and the Latin root servare, which means 'to keep', with con- meaning 'with' or 'together'. So a conservational action is one that tries to 'keep' or protect nature, resources, or old things for the future.