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Definition: Heterotrophic |
HeterotrophicAdjective1. (botany) requiring organic compounds of carbon and nitrogen for nourishment; "most animals are heterotrophic". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biology & Biotechnology | Pertaining to organisms that are consumers and dependent on other organisms for their source of energy(food). Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | Of organisms that connot live without an external source of organic food. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Antonym: autotrophic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Heterotrophic |
| English words defined with "heterotrophic": division Eumycota ♦ Eumycota. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "heterotrophic": consumers ♦ decomposers ♦ Heterotrophic Organisms ♦ Pyrococcus ♦ Thermococcus, Thermoplasma ♦ Zoomastigophora. (references) |
| "Heterotrophic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Heterotrophic" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
heterotrophic | 7 |
count heterotrophic plate | 6 |
bacterium heterotrophic | 3 |
heterotrophic ossification | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "heterotrophic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | heterotrof (heterotrophe, heterotropic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | heterotroof (heterotrophe, heterotropic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | heterotrofinen (heterotrophe, heterotropic), toisenvarainen (heterotrophe, heterotropic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hétérotrophe (heterotrophe, heterotropic), organotrophe (heterotrophe, heterotropic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | heterotroph (heterotrophe, heterotropic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | οι ετερότροφοι οργανισμοί-καταναλωτές-χρησιμοποιούν σύνθετες ενώσεις όπως υδατάνθρακες και πρωτεϊνες (the heterotrophic organisms - consumers - utilize complex compounds such as carbohydrates and proteins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | eterotrofo (heterotrophe, heterotropic), eterotrofico (heterotrophe, heterotropic), allotrofo (heterotrophe, heterotropic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eterotrophichay heterotrófico (heterotrophe, heterotropic), heterótrofo (heterotrophe, heterotropic). (various references) heterotrofo (heterotrophe, heterotropic), heterotrófico (heterotrophe, heterotropic). (various references) heterotrof (heterotrophe, heterotropic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "heterotrophic": heterotrophically. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "heterotrophic" (pronounced he'terutrÄ"fik) |
| 6 | -t r Ä" f i k | catastrophic, geostrophic. |
| 4 | -Ä" f i k | philosophic. |
| 3 | -f i k | anthropomorphic, autotrophic, calligraphic, choreographic, delphic, demographic, dimorphic, epigraphic, ethnographic, geographic, graphic, hieroglyphic, holographic, honorific, horrific, hydrographic, lithographic, logographic, metamorphic, micrographic, nonspecific, oceanographic, orographic, orphic, Pacific, photographic, polymorphic, pornographic, prolific, pseudoscientific, reprographic, scientific, specific, stenographic, stereographic, stratigraphic, terrific, topographic, traffic, transpacific, unscientific. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-h-i-o-o-p-r-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: heterotopic, heterotroph. | |
-4 letters: heterotic, orthoepic, protector, prothetic, theoretic. | |
-5 letters: chertier, herpetic, hitherto, hotchpot, orthotic, poechore, poortith, portiere, potterer, preterit, prettier, receptor, rhetoric, tephrite, tetchier, toothier, torchere, torchier. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-h-i-o-o-p-r-r-t-t" | |
+4 letters: heterotrophically. | |
+5 letters: stereophotographic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 74 65 72 6F 74 72 6F 70 68 69 63 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101111 01110100 01110010 01101111 01110000 01101000 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e t e r o t r o p h i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0074 0065 0072 006F 0074 0072 006F 0070 0068 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42718671848186848182747569 |
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