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Autotroph Moderate

Origin: Greek prefix auto-

Autotroph has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances

2

Any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.

See Also
auxotrophe heat lithotroph primary producer synthesize autotrophy chemoautolithotroph inorganic
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
plant
Rhyming Words
soph loph toph qoph troph aroph notoph gonoph biotroph syntroph ectoloph mesoloph theosoph morosoph metaloph paraloph polytroph auxotroph mixotroph osmotroph
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