Associations to the word «Heterotroph»
Wiktionary
HETEROTROPH, noun. (ecology) An organism which requires an external supply of energy in the form of food as it cannot synthesize its own.
Dictionary definition
HETEROTROPH, noun. An organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.