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prototrophic

prototrophic adjective: of or pertaining to a prototroph or to prototrophy.

Adjective

prototrophic (comparative more prototrophic, superlative most prototrophic)

  1. Of or pertaining to a prototroph or to prototrophy.
    • The first two, fast-growing species, were found to be more prototrophic than the last two, slowly growing species.1969, Nuclear Science Abstracts, Volume 23, Issues 13-15, United States Atomic Energy Commission, page 2526
    • Intrastrain fusions resulted in fully prototrophic progeny that were very similar in appearance and growth rate to the original prototrophic parental strain (Stasz et al., 1988a, 1989).1998, G. E. Harman, C. K. Hayes, K. L. Ondik, “11: Asexual genetics in Trichoderma and Gliocladium: Mechanisms and implications”, in Gary E. Harman, C. P. Kubicek, editors, Trichoderma And...

Forms of prototrophic

comparativemore prototrophic
superlativemost prototrophic

Origin of prototrophic

From prototroph + -ic.

Questions about prototrophic

What does prototrophic mean?
Prototrophic means of or pertaining to a prototroph or to prototrophy.
What part of speech is prototrophic?
Prototrophic is an adjective.

Words near prototrophic in the dictionary

  1. prototribestin
  2. prototroch
  3. prototrochal
  4. prototrochs
  5. prototroph
  6. prototrophic
  7. prototrophies
  8. prototrophism
  9. prototrophs
  10. prototrophy
  11. prototropic

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