Autotrophic synonyms

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autophytic
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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heterotrophic (antonym)
The definition of heterotrophic is organisms that require organic compounds for nourishment and cannot survive on inorganic matter.
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Autotrophic Sentence Examples

  • Parasites, again, were derived from normal autotrophic plants, which, as the parasitic habit became more pronounced, acquired the corresponding characteristics of form and structure; there is, in fact, the group of hemi-parasites, plants which still retain autotrophic characters though they are root-parasites.

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