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Adjective: autotrophic  ,o-tu'trow-fik
  1. (botany) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis
    "Plants use simple inorganic materials and build these up into complex organic molecules, which is called autotrophic nutrition";
    - autophytic

Antonym: heterotrophic

Encyclopedia: Autotrophic

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