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histotropy

histotropy is the misspelling of histotrophy.

Meaning of histotrophy

Noun

histotrophy (uncountable)

  1. A form of matrotrophy exhibited by some live-bearing sharks and rays, in which the developing embryo receives additional nutrition from its mother in the form of uterine secretions called histotroph

Questions about histotropy

What is histotropy the misspelling of?
Histotropy is the misspelling of histotrophy.

Words near histotropy in the dictionary

  1. histotrophism
  2. histotrophs
  3. histotrophy
  4. histotropic
  5. histotropism
  6. histotropy
  7. histotype
  8. histotypes
  9. histotypic
  10. histotyping
  11. histovariability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: histotropy (page history and authors); histotrophy (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.

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