Eco vs Ecology - What's the difference?
eco | ecology |
Environmentally friendly or sensitive.
* {{quote-news, 2008, December 28, Lucy Siegle, Why older isn't always wiser, The Observer
, passage=Except that the smart eco (and fiscal) thing to do is to wait until your current appliance has reached its break-even point
A proposed name for the common currency that the West African Monetary Zone plans to introduce in the framework of Economic Community of West African States.
The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Robert M. Pringle
, title=How to Be Manipulative
, volume=100, issue=1, page=31
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As a proper noun eco
is (label) (mythology).As a noun ecology is
the branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.eco
English
Etymology 1
Shortening of ecologyAdjective
(en adjective)citation
Etymology 2
From ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States, who propose to use the currency.Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----ecology
English
(wikipedia ecology)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
- As a graduate student, he was working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area . He had to investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and animals in this region.
citation, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}