From proto- + -trophism. <span class="searchmatch">prototrophism</span> (uncountable) (microbiology) Reversion to the growth factor requirements of an ancestral strain. 1962, Nikolaĭ...
<span class="searchmatch">prototrophs</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">prototroph</span>...
From proto- + -troph. <span class="searchmatch">prototroph</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">prototrophs</span>) (biology) Any microorganism that can synthesize its nutrients from inorganic material prototrophic...
autotrophism auxotrophism biotrophism neurotrophism orphanotrophism <span class="searchmatch">prototrophism</span> saprotrophism syntrophism trophism trophic, -trophic tropho- -tropism...
(comparative more prototropic, superlative most prototropic) (chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting prototropy (biology) Of or pertaining to <span class="searchmatch">prototrophs</span>...
(biology) prototrophic prototrophe m (plural prototrophes) (biology) <span class="searchmatch">prototroph</span> prototrophie “prototrophe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé...
From <span class="searchmatch">prototroph</span> + -ic. prototrophic (comparative more prototrophic, superlative most prototrophic) (biology) Of or pertaining to a <span class="searchmatch">prototroph</span> or to prototrophy...
organotroph pathotroph photoautotroph phototroph planktotroph polytroph <span class="searchmatch">prototroph</span> psychrotroph saprotroph somatomammotroph somatotroph thiotroph xylotroph...
(genitive singular prótatrófaigh, nominative plural prótatrófaigh) (biology) <span class="searchmatch">prototroph</span> Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard...
(usually uncountable, plural prototrophies) The condition of being a <span class="searchmatch">prototroph</span> 1951 March, K. C. Atwood, “Periodic Selection in Escherichia Coli”, in...