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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In phytogeography, an autotrophic plant.
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- noun Any
plant capable ofsynthesizing its ownfood from simple organic substances
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- noun plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
Etymologies
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auto- + -phyte
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