Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Obtaining nourishment by the ingestion of organic material, as animals do.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Entirely like an animal in mode of nutrition; not holophytic nor saprophytic: said of some infusorians.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. obtaining nourishment as animals do by ingesting complex organic matter
Etymologies
- holo- + -zoic (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Chromatophores may or may not be present and food-taking is holozoic, in many cases at least.”
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
Lists
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Logolepsy
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Interesting Scrabble words
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Gallimaufry
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Biology
vitta, euphotic, acarology, boscage, holozoic, Erethism, sireniform
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super-kawy Obtaining nourishment by the ingestion of organic material, as animals do. Sep 23, 2009