holophytic

1. 1.

   obtaining nourishment as green plants do

   Antonymsholozoic

Questions about holophytic

What does holophytic mean?

holophytic means "obtaining nourishment as green plants do".

How many syllables are in holophytic?

holophytic has 4 syllables and divides as ho-lo-phy-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of holophytic?

The recorded antonyms are holozoic.

Is holophytic a common word?

holophytic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.