Bible Dictionaries
Allotrophic

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Dependent upon other organisms for nutrition; heterotrophic; - said of plants unable to perform photosynthesis, as all saprophytes; - opposed to autotrophic.

(2):

(a.) Changed or modified in nutritive power by the process of digestion.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Allotrophic'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/allotrophic.html. 1828.