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Heterotroph Moderate

Heterotroph has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition

2

An organism which requires an external supply of energy in the form of food as it cannot synthesize its own.

See Also
heterotrophs heterotrophic consumer supply lithotroph energy organoheterotroph require
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
organism
Rhyming Words
soph loph toph qoph troph aroph notoph gonoph biotroph syntroph ectoloph mesoloph theosoph morosoph metaloph paraloph polytroph auxotroph mixotroph autotroph
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