ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Polytrophic

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Polytrophic is an adjective meaning (biology) Of bacteria etc.: feeding on multiple types of food, or obtaining nutrients in more than one way.

Meaning

(biology) Of bacteria etc.: feeding on multiple types of food, or obtaining nutrients in more than one way.

More Meanings

  1. (biology, of an insect) Having a nutritive cell attached to each egg in the ovary
  2. (of a lake) Rich in nutrients

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ovaries, polybacterial, multitrophic, pantrophic, polymicrobial, ambivorous.

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