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trophic
1[ trof-ik, troh-fik ]
adjective
- of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
-trophic
2- 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 ).
trophic
/ ˈtrɒfɪk /
adjective
- of or relating to nutrition
the trophic levels of a food chain
trophic
/ trŏf′ĭk /
- Relating to the feeding habits of different organisms in a food chain or web.
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Derived Forms
- ˈtrophically, adverb
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Other Words From
- trophi·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of trophic1
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Example Sentences
Yellowstone is the archetypal example of trophic cascades and landscapes of fear.
It is possible that the reflected impulse stimulates trophic nerves.
There is also a trophic differentiation, the fibres undertaking special functions of nutrition (the conduction of the sap).
Certain cells of the anterior part of the spinal cord, for example, are the trophic centres of the spinal motor nerves.
Other trophic centres, governing nerve tracts in the spinal cord itself, are in the various regions of the brain.
Referring again to Fig. 51, it is observable that trophic changes affected the system at the age of birth.
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