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bitrophic

bitrophic adjective: describing a parasite that feeds on another parasite. Also the misspelling of biotrophic.

Adjective

bitrophic (not comparable)

  1. Describing a parasite that feeds on another parasite.
    • Instead, most experiments have ignored the role played by the first trophic level (i.e. the plant) and focused on preference and performance by parasitoids in a bitrophic system (for review, see [8 ,15 ]).2015 August 14, “Aphid Parasitoid Mothers Don't Always Know Best through the Whole Host Selection Process”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Also used as

bitrophic is also the misspelling of biotrophic.

Origin of bitrophic

From bi- + -trophic.

Questions about bitrophic

What does bitrophic mean?
Bitrophic means describing a parasite that feeds on another parasite.
What part of speech is bitrophic?
Bitrophic is an adjective.

Words near bitrophic in the dictionary

  1. bitrate
  2. bitrates
  3. bitriplet
  4. bitriplets
  5. bitrochanteric
  6. bitrophic
  7. bitrot
  8. bitrotten
  9. bitruncated
  10. bitruncation
  11. bitruncations

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