mixotrophn.

1937 A. P. Kelley Lit. Mycorrhizae 138 The authors consider mycorrhizal plants as ‘mixotrophs’.

1967 Ecology 48 562/2 High cell numbers in the ponds were frequently associated with low rates of inorganic fixation, which suggested that some of the species were mixotrophs (auxotrophs), or facultative photoheterotrophs.

1981 Science 28 Aug. 977/1 One of the competitors was a strain of Thiobacillus that could grow as a heterotroph on an organic compound such as acetate, as a chemolithotroph on thiosulfate, or as a mixotroph on both acetate and thiosulfate.

1994 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 343 58 Phototrophs and mixotrophs..constitute 15 percent or less of biomass in the top 30m of a North Atlantic spring bloom.

2017 F. Martin Molecular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis xxv. 463 As herbs or small shrubs, mixotrophs typically grow in young forests with loose canopy.