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HETEROTROPHIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does heterotrophic mean?
• HETEROTROPHIC (adjective)
The adjective HETEROTROPHIC has 1 sense:
1. requiring organic compounds of carbon and nitrogen for nourishment
Familiarity information: HETEROTROPHIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Requiring organic compounds of carbon and nitrogen for nourishment
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
most animals are heterotrophic
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Antonym:
autotrophic (of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis)
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