Allotroph

Quick meaning: Allotroph is a noun meaning (rare) Synonym of heterotroph.

Meaning

(rare) Synonym of heterotroph.

Example Sentences

A living thing using only inorganic materials as food, as opposed to heterotrophs, allotrophs, parasites, or saprophytes, which depend on other organisms for nutrition.

The ecosystems of the extra-polar high mountains are described as anabolic-allotroph systems, but those of the Antarctic mountains are katabolic autotoph^([sic – meaning autotroph]) systems.

[We see the] plants as synthesizing autotrophs, extracting energy from light and storing it in organic form, and the animals as predatory allotrophs, consuming organic material in order to secure energy, […]

It is possible that at a young age these secondary host plants (allotrophs) have a similar chemistry to that of the primary hosts that is also attractant and palatable for the beetles. It is also possible that the allotrophs are actually phytochemically […]

Word Forms

• allotrophs

Synonyms for allotroph

Depending on context, synonyms include heterotroph.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heteromycotroph, organoheterotroph, auxotrophism, allotopia, organoheterotrophy, heterotrophy.

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