HOLOPHYTIC

holophytic

(adjective) obtaining nourishment as green plants do

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

holophytic (not comparable)

(biology) That can obtain nutrition without the ingestion of food

Antonyms

• holozoic

Source: Wiktionary


Hol`o*phyt"ic, a. Etym: [Holo + Gr.

Definition: Wholly or distinctively vegetable. Holophytic nutrition (, that form of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion of albuminous matter.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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