Definition of Holophytic. Meaning of Holophytic. Synonyms of Holophytic

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Definition of Holophytic

Holophytic
Holophytic Hol`o*phyt"ic, a. [Holo + Gr.? a plant.] Wholly or distinctively vegetable. Holophytic nutrition, that form of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion of albuminous matter.

Meaning of Holophytic from wikipedia

- photoautotrophs. Photoautotrophic organisms are sometimes referred to as holophytic. Oxygenic photosynthetic organisms use chlorophyll for light-energy capture...
- organisms, including blood and decaying organic matter. This contrasts with holophytic nutrition, in which energy and organic building blocks are obtained through...
- chloroplast, a single nucleus, a red stigma but no gullet. Nutrition is holophytic. Size of colony increases by binary fission. In the colony the zooids...