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Definition of Holozoic
1. Adjective. Obtaining nourishment as animals do by ingesting complex organic matter.
Definition of Holozoic
1. Adjective. Obtaining nutrition, as most animals, by the ingestion of organic matter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Holozoic
1. eating solid foods [adj]
Medical Definition of Holozoic
1. Animal-like in mode of obtaining nourishment, lacking photosynthetic capacity; denoting certain protozoans, in distinction to others that are holophytic. Origin: holo-+ G. Zoon, animal (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Holozoic
Literary usage of Holozoic
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)
"A close connection between holozoic Fig. 71. ... The food of the holozoic
flagellates consists of bacteria and minute bits of disintegrated proteid matter. ..."
2. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"... which is continued into two flagella. At the anterior end of the body are two
or three flagella on each side. holozoic, and perhaps in part saprophytic. ..."
3. Lessons in Elementary Biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1893)
"nutrition holozoic : reproduction by simple or binary fission i 2. ... and holozoic :
reproduction by binary and multiple fission . ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Bilaterally symmetrical, often creeping, pharynx highly developed, with a firm
rod-like skeleton, sometimes protrusible; nutrition saprophytic and holozoic. ..."
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