2 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Holophytic \Hol`o*phyt"ic\, a. [Holo + Gr.? a plant.] Wholly or distinctively vegetable. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: holophytic adj : obtaining nourishment as green plants do [ant: {holozoic}]
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