Thesaurus: holophytic
Wholly or distinctively vegetable.
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Definitions
- a. Wholly or distinctively vegetable.
- adj. obtaining nourishment as green plants do
- 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.
- Wholly or distinctively vegetable. Holophytic nutrition (, thatform of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in whichcarbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, indistinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion ofalbuminous matter.
- a obtaining nourishment as green plants do