Allotrophic

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  allotrophic \al`lo*troph"ic\ ([a^]l`l[-o]*tr[o^]f"[i^]k), a.
     [Gr. 'a`llos other + trophic.]
     (a) (Physiol.) Changed or modified in nutritive power by the
         process of digestion.
     (b) (Plant Physiol.) Dependent upon other organisms for
         nutrition; heterotrophic; -- said of plants unable to


         perform photosynthesis, as all saprophytes; -- opposed to
         {autotrophic}.
         [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Allotropical