paratrophic
/ˌparəˈtrɒfɪk/ /ˌparəˈtrəʊfɪk/Medicine and Biology. Now rare
adjective
Dependent upon living organic material for nutrition; obligately parasitic. Now rare.
Origin
Mid 19th century (in an earlier sense). From para- + -trophic. In sense 1, after paratrophy.
- intestinally
- intestine
- intestines
- in that
- in that case
- in that event
- in the abstract
- in the act of
- in the affirmative
- in (the) aggregate
- in the air
- in the altogether
- in the ascendant
- in the bag
- in the balance
- in the belief that
- in the blink of an eye (or in a blink)
- in the box seat
- in the buff
- in the business of
- in the cactus
- in the can
- in the cart
- in the catbird seat
- in the cause of