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Trophic
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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-trophic
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).
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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.
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Science Dictionary
trophic  (trŏf'ĭk) Pronunciation Key
Relating to the feeding habits of different organisms in a food chain or web. |
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