Trophic
adjective
1.
of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
1.
a combining form with the meanings “having nutritional habits or requirements” of the kind specified by the initial element (autotrophic), “affecting the activity of, maintaining” that specified (gonadotrophic) (in this sense often interchangeable with -tropic, ); also forming adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -troph, or -trophy, (hypertrophic).
adjective
1.
of or relating to nutrition: the trophic levels of a food chain
trophic troph·ic (trŏf’ĭk, trō’fĭk)
adj.
Of, relating to, or characterized by nutrition.
-trophic suff.
Of, relating to, or characterized by a specified kind of nutrition: organotrophic.
trophic
(trŏf’ĭk)
Relating to the feeding habits of different organisms in a food chain or web.
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