Word.ws English Dictionary

auxotrophic

auxotrophic adjective: describing a strain of organism that requires a specific metabolic substance that the parent organism was able to synthesize by itself.

Adjective

auxotrophic (comparative more auxotrophic, superlative most auxotrophic)

  1. Describing a strain of organism that requires a specific metabolic substance that the parent organism was able to synthesize by itself

Forms of auxotrophic

comparativemore auxotrophic
superlativemost auxotrophic

Words formed from auxotrophic

Questions about auxotrophic

What does auxotrophic mean?
Auxotrophic means describing a strain of organism that requires a specific metabolic substance that the parent organism was able to synthesize by itself.
What part of speech is auxotrophic?
Auxotrophic is an adjective.

Words near auxotrophic in the dictionary

  1. auxostats
  2. auxotelic
  3. auxotonic
  4. auxotonically
  5. auxotroph
  6. auxotrophic
  7. auxotrophical
  8. auxotrophically
  9. auxotrophies
  10. auxotrophism
  11. auxotrophisms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: auxotrophic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “auxotrophic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/auxotrophic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.