definitions

-trophic

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).

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Nearby words

-tripsy, -trix, -tron, -trope, -troph, -trophic, -trophy, -tropic, -tropism, -tropous, -tropy

Origin of -trophic

see origin at trophic
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Medicine definitions for -trophic

-trophic

suff.

Of, relating to, or characterized by a specified kind of nutrition:organotrophic.
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