Trophic vs Tropics - What's the difference?
trophic | tropics |
Of or pertaining to nutrition
(ecology) Describing the relationships between the feeding habits of organisms in a food chain
(physiology) Of or pertaining to growth
(geography) The region of the Earth, centred on the equator and lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn and characterized by a hot climate.
As an adjective trophic
is of or pertaining to nutrition.As a noun tropics is
.trophic
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(-)Usage notes
In physiological sense, not to be confused with similar-sounding – the words and concepts are unrelated.“Trophic vs. Tropic”, Werner Steinberg, JAMA, May 3, 1952, 149(1), p. 82, doi:10.1001/jama.1952.02930180084027.