-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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the act of or need for making up one's mind.
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Origin of -trophic

see origin at trophic

Words nearby -trophic

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

-trophic

suff.

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