Hol`o·phyt'ic adjective [ Holo + Greek ... a plant.] Wholly or distinctively vegetable. Holophytic nutrition that form of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrit... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/54
Type: Term Pronunciation: hol′ō-fit′ik Definitions: 1. Having a plantlike mode of obtaining nourishment; denoting certain photosynthesizing protozoans, Euglena. Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=41274
(Gk: holos=whole; phyton=plant) feeding like a green plant, by making organic compounds from inorganic ones, and using energy from the sun by means of photosynthesis. Found on http://www.seafriends.org.nz/books/glossary.htm