polytrophic
adjective
poly·troph·ic
| \ ¦pälē‧¦träfik, -lə̇‧¦t-\
Definition of polytrophic
1
: deriving nourishment from more than one organic substance
polytrophic pathogenic bacteria
2
: producing nutritive cells one of which is attached to each developing egg in the ovary
—used of an insect or the ovary of an insect
— compare acrotrophic, panoistic
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