trophogenic
adjective
troph·o·gen·ic
| \ ¦träfə¦jenik\
Definition of trophogenic
1
: brought about by or resulting from differences in food or feeding rather than genetically determined
the various castes of social insects are usually held to be trophogenic in origin
— compare blastogenic
2
or less commonly trophogenous \ trōˈfäjənəs \
[ troph- + -genous ]
: of, relating to, or being the upper level in a lake in which inorganic matter is converted to organic through photosynthetic activity — compare tropholytic
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