Usually means: Able to synthesize all nutrients.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. prototrophic: Merriam-Webster
  2. prototrophic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. prototrophic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prototrophic: Wordnik
  5. prototrophic: Wiktionary
  6. prototrophic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. prototrophic: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. prototrophic: Dictionary.com
  9. prototrophic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  10. prototrophic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. prototrophic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. prototrophic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. prototrophic: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prototrophic)

▸ adjective:  (biology) Of or pertaining to a prototroph or to prototrophy.

Similar:
prototropic, protobiological, protobiontic, mixotrophic, protocellular, genotropic, photobiontic, organotrophic, organoheterotrophic, ombrotrophic, more...

Opposite:
auxotrophic, heterotrophic, nutritional mutant

Types:
phototrophic, chemoautotrophic, lithotrophic, organotrophic, more...

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Similar:
prototropic, protobiological, protobiontic, mixotrophic, protocellular, genotropic, photobiontic, organotrophic, organoheterotrophic, ombrotrophic, more...

Opposite:
auxotrophic, heterotrophic, nutritional mutant

Types:
phototrophic, chemoautotrophic, lithotrophic, organotrophic, more...



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