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-trophic

-trophic suffix: used to form adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -trophy.

Suffix

-trophic

  1. Used to form adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -trophy

Origin of -trophic

From Ancient Greek τροφικός (trophikós, “pertaining to food or nourishment”), from τροφή (trophḗ, “food”).

Questions about -trophic

What does -trophic mean?
-trophic means used to form adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -trophy.
What part of speech is -trophic?
-trophic is a suffix.

Words near -trophic in the dictionary

  1. -tronics
  2. -trons
  3. -trop-
  4. -trope
  5. -troph
  6. -trophic
  7. -trophism
  8. -trophy
  9. -tropia
  10. -tropic
  11. -tropin

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