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mycotrophic

mycotrophic adjective: describing any plant that obtains (all or some of) its nutrients through symbiosis with fungi.

Adjective

mycotrophic (comparative more mycotrophic, superlative most mycotrophic)

  1. Describing any plant that obtains (all or some of) its nutrients through symbiosis with fungi

Forms of mycotrophic

comparativemore mycotrophic
superlativemost mycotrophic

Origin of mycotrophic

From myco- + -trophic.

Words formed from mycotrophic

Words that rhyme with mycotrophic

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Questions about mycotrophic

What does mycotrophic mean?
Mycotrophic means describing any plant that obtains (all or some of) its nutrients through symbiosis with fungi.
What part of speech is mycotrophic?
Mycotrophic is an adjective.

Words near mycotrophic in the dictionary

  1. mycotoxicosis
  2. mycotoxigenic
  3. mycotoxin
  4. mycotoxins
  5. mycotroph
  6. mycotrophic
  7. mycotrophically
  8. mycotrophs
  9. mycotrophy
  10. mycoviral
  11. mycovirology

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