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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances, using light or chemical energy. Green plants, algae, and certain bacteria are autotrophs.

Wiktionary

  1. n. biology Any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. an organism which is autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances

Etymologies

  1. auto- + -troph (Wiktionary)

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