Maybe ecology sees Crosophile in landscape catching cold (7)
I believe the answer is:
science
'maybe ecology' is the definition.
(ecology is an example)
'crosophile in landscape catching cold' is the wordplay.
'crosophile' becomes 'i' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'landscape' becomes 'scene' (I've seen this before).
'catching' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cold' becomes 'c' (eg on taps).
'scene' going around 'c' is 'scence'.
'i' put into 'scence' is 'SCIENCE'.
'sees' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for science that I've seen before include "Biology, perhaps?" , "Organised body of knowledge" , "-- Fiction; -- park" , "Subject such as biology, physics, etc" , "The search for facts" .)