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trophic

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[ trof-ik, troh-fik ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.


-trophic

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  1. a combining form with the meanings 鈥渉aving nutritional habits or requirements鈥� of the kind specified by the initial element ( autotrophic ), 鈥渁ffecting the activity of, maintaining鈥� that specified ( gonadotrophic ) (in this sense often interchangeable with -tropic ); also forming adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -troph or -trophy ( hypertrophic ).

trophic

/ 藞迟谤蓲蹿瑟办 /

adjective

  1. of or relating to nutrition

    the trophic levels of a food chain

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥� Complete & Unabridged鈥� 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

trophic

/ 迟谤艔蹿鈥�沫办 /

  1. Relating to the feeding habits of different organisms in a food chain or web.
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Derived Forms

  • 藞迟谤辞辫丑颈肠补濒濒测, adverb
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Other 榶心vlog Forms

  • 迟谤辞辫丑顎僫路肠补濒路濒测 adverb
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榶心vlog History and Origins

Origin of trophic1

First recorded in 1870鈥�75, trophic is from the Greek word 迟谤辞辫丑颈办贸蝉 pertaining to food. See tropho-, -ic

Origin of trophic2

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榶心vlog History and Origins

Origin of trophic1

C19: from Greek trophikos , from 迟谤辞辫丑脓 food, from trephein to feed
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Example Sentences

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Investigations on phytoplankton are hereby most crucial, since changes at the basis of the food web can impact all higher trophic levels, all the way up to fisheries.

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The wolves鈥� return and predatory dominance was believed to have had a widespread effect known as a trophic cascade, by decreasing grazing and restoring and expanding forests, grasses and other wildlife.

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"Dogs can contribute to the extinction of vertebrate species, can imbalance the trophic dynamics amongst predator guilds and even have the potential to collapse entire ecological communities," he continues.

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"The displacement of various shark species due to killer whale presence may have implications for mesopredator release and potential trophic changes in the marine ecosystem."

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The researchers set out to study both biodiversity -- plants, insects, vertebrates -- and changes in how food webs function -- biomass, trophic structure, energy fluxes.

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