'Holophytic' definitions:
Definition of 'holophytic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Obtaining nourishment as green plants do [ant: holozoic]
Definition of 'Holophytic'
From: GCIDE
- Holophytic \Hol`o*phyt"ic\, a. [Holo + Gr.? a plant.] Wholly or distinctively vegetable. [1913 Webster]
- Holophytic nutrition, that form of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion of albuminous matter. [1913 Webster]