trophic
English
/ˈtɹɒfɪk/, /ˈtɹɑfɪk/
adj
Definitions
- Of or pertaining to nutrition.
- (ecology) Describing the relationships between the feeding habits of organisms in a food chain.
- (physiology) Of or pertaining to growth.
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek τροφικός (food nourishment, nursing, tending).
Origin
Ancient Greek
τροφικός
Gloss
food nourishment, nursing, tending
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -trophic English
- chondrotrophic English
- eutrophic English
- eutrophically English
- eutrophicate English
- exotrophic English
- hypereutrophic English
- mesoeutrophic English
- midtrophic English
- nontrophic English
- tritrophic English
- trophically English
- τροφή Ancient Greek
- τροφικός Ancient Greek
- -trófach Irish
- grc nocat=1
- εὖ nocat=1
- τροφικός nocat=1