ALLOTROPHIC

ALLOTROPHIC Al `lo *troph "ic, a. [Gr. other + trophic. ] (a ) (Physiol.) Changed or modified in nutritive power by the process of digestion. (b ) (Plant Physiol.) Dependent upon other organisms for nutrition; heterotrophic; -- said of plants unable to perform photosynthesis, as all saprophytes; -- opposed to autotrophic.