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mix•o•troph
(mik′sə trof′, -trōf′),USA pronunciation n. [Biol.]
mix′o•troph′ic, adj.
- Ecologyany organism capable of existing as either an autotroph or heterotroph.
- back formation from mixotrophic, equivalent. to Greek mixo- (see mixoploid) + -trophic