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HETEROTROPH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does heterotroph mean?
• HETEROTROPH (noun)
The noun HETEROTROPH has 1 sense:
1. an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition
Familiarity information: HETEROTROPH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition
Classified under:
Nouns with no superordinates
Hypernyms ("heterotroph" is a kind of...):
being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
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