holophytic

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Adjective

TANDA HUBUNG

hol=o=phyt=ic

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective holophytic has 1 sense

holophytic(a = adj.all) Array - obtaining nourishment as green plants do; Array

Derived form noun

holophyte₁

Antonym: holozoic

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CIDE DICTIONARY

holophytic, a. [Holo + Gr. a plant.].

Wholly or distinctively vegetable. [1913 Webster]

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.