Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Obtaining nourishment by the ingestion of organic material. Used chiefly of protozoans.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Entirely like an animal in mode of nutrition; not holophytic nor saprophytic: said of some infusorians.
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- adjective Obtaining
nutrition , as mostanimals , by theingestion oforganic matter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective obtaining nourishment as animals do by ingesting complex organic matter
Etymologies
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holo- + -zoic
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Examples
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Chromatophores may or may not be present and food-taking is holozoic, in many cases at least.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
super-kawy commented on the word holozoic
Obtaining nourishment by the ingestion of organic material, as animals do.
September 23, 2009