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Definition of Holophytic
1. Adjective. Obtaining nourishment as green plants do.
Definition of Holophytic
1. a. Wholly or distinctively vegetable.
Definition of Holophytic
1. Adjective. (biology) That can obtain nutrition without the ingestion of food ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Holophytic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Holophytic
1. 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. Origin: Holo + Gr. A plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holophytic
Literary usage of Holophytic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Protozoa by Gary Nathan Calkins (1901)
"Flagellated unicellular organisms with chlorophyl and holophytic nutrition, ...
Nutrition is holophytic or saprophytic. Genera: Cryptomonas Ehr. ('31); ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"The more perfectly the parasite adapts itself to its host the greater may be its
departure from the structure of its vegetative organs which its holophytic ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"If we compare the holophytic flagellates with those forms which have no ...
The holophytic forms are noticeably less motile than the others. ..."
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