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-trophic
-trophicsuff.1. Of, relating to, or characterized by a specified kind of nutrition or sustenance: auxotrophic.2. Maintaining the function of or regulating a specified gland or type of tissue: gonadotrophic. [From trophic. Sense 2, influenced by -tropic.]troph•ic (ˈtrɒf ɪk, ˈtroʊ fɪk) adj. of or pertaining to nutrition; involving nutritive processes: a trophic disease. [1870–75; < Greek trophikós pertaining to food. See tropho-, -ic] troph′i•cal•ly, adv. -trophic a combining form with the meanings “deriving nourishment” from the source or in the manner specified (autotrophic; eutrophic), “affecting the activity of, maintaining” that specified (thyrotrophic) (in this sense often interchangeable with -tropic); also forming adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -troph or -trophy (hypertrophic). [see trophic] EncyclopediaSeetrophic-trophic
-trophic word element [Gr.], nourishing; stimulating.-trophicNutrition. Compare: -tropic. [G. trophē, nourishment] -trophic Suffix denoting nutrition. Compare: -tropic[G. trophē, nourishment]-trophic Combining form denoting nutrition or nourishment. |