Usually means: Unable to synthesize essential nutrients.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. auxotrophic: Merriam-Webster
  2. auxotrophic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. auxotrophic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. auxotrophic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. auxotrophic: Wiktionary
  6. auxotrophic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. auxotrophic: Dictionary.com
  8. Auxotrophic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. auxotrophic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. auxotrophic: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. auxotrophic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. auxotrophic: Medical dictionary

(Note: See auxotrophy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (auxotrophic)

adjective:  (biology) Describing a strain of organism that requires a specific metabolic substance that the parent organism was able to synthesize by itself

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