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organotrophy

organotrophy noun: the condition of an organism obtaining its energy from organic compounds.

Noun

organotrophy (uncountable)

  1. The condition of an organism obtaining its energy from organic compounds.
    • The ability of many freshwater algae to grow under controlled laboratory conditions in the dark in the presence of a carbon source provides strong experimental evidence for the wide occurrence of organotrophy.2005, David Sigee, Freshwater Microbiology

Words formed from organotrophy

Questions about organotrophy

What does organotrophy mean?
Organotrophy means the condition of an organism obtaining its energy from organic compounds.
What part of speech is organotrophy?
Organotrophy is a noun.

Words near organotrophy in the dictionary

  1. organotriethoxysilane
  2. organotroph
  3. organotrophic
  4. organotrophically
  5. organotrophs
  6. organotrophy
  7. organotropic
  8. organotropically
  9. organotropism
  10. organotropisms
  11. organotropy

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