About The Word Holophytic
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Holophytic
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What's The Definition Of Holophytic?
[adj] obtaining nourishment as green plants do
Synonyms | Synonyms for Holophytic: Related Terms | Find terms related to Holophytic: See Also | Holophytic In Webster's Dictionary \Hol`o*phyt"ic\, a. [Holo + Gr.? a plant.]
Wholly or distinctively vegetable.
{Holophytic nutrition}, that form of nutrition,
characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic
acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in
distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the
ingestion of albuminous matter.
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