All 5 Uses of
niche
in
Dune
- "The more life there is within a system, the more niches there are for life," his father said.†
Book 2 *
- The dark niches of his eyes remained steady on Paul with their untamed stare.†
Book 3
- They turned then to the necessary animal life — burrowing creatures to open the soil and aerate it: kit fox, kangaroo mouse, desert hare, sand terrapin ...and the predators to keep them in check: desert hawk, dwarf owl, eagle and desert owl; and insects to fill the niches these couldn't reach: scorpion, centipede, trapdoor spider, the biting wasp and the wormfly ...and the desert bat to keep watch on these.†
Book A1 -
- The Baron shifted his gross body in the suspensors, focused his attention on an ebaline statue of a leaping boy in a niche across the room.†
Book 2
- A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.†
Book A1 -
Definitions:
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(1)
(niche) a smaller market within a larger market -- such as the market for scissors designed for people who are left-handed
or:
a role for which someone is especially well-suited
or:
a shallow recess, cranny or crevice -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, niche can refer to a role for a species within an ecosystem.