AUTOPHYTE

autophyte, autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism

(noun) plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

autophyte (plural autophytes)

Any plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

27 May 2025

DIRECTIONALITY

(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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