Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of altered nutritive Value; rendered less nutritious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.) Changed or modified in nutritive power by the process of digestion.
- adjective (Plant Physiol.) Dependent upon other organisms for nutrition; heterotrophic; -- said of plants unable to perform photosynthesis, as all saprophytes; -- opposed to
autotrophic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to an
allotroph .
Etymologies
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allotroph + -ic
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