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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024troph•ic (trof′ik, trō′fik),USA pronunciation adj. - Nutritionof or pertaining to nutrition;
concerned in nutritive processes.
- Greek trophikós pertaining to food. See tropho-, -ic
- 1870–75
- a combining form with the meanings "having nutritional habits or requirements'' of the kind specified by the initial element (autotrophic), "affecting the activity of, maintaining'' that specified (gonadotrophic) (in this sense often interchangeable with -tropic);
also forming adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -troph or -trophy (hypertrophic).
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: trophic /ˈtrɒfɪk/ adj - of or relating to nutrition: the trophic levels of a food chain
Etymology: 19th Century: from Greek trophikos, from trophē food, from trephein to feed |