Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

auxotrophic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: aux-otroph-ic
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Describing a strain of organism that requires a specific metabolic substance that the parent organism was able to synthesize by itself

Inflected Forms

more auxotrophic (comparative) most auxotrophic (superlative)

Derived Forms

auxotrophically nonauxotrophic

Frequently Paired Words

auxotroph auxotrophy

Questions

What does auxotrophic mean?: Describing a strain of organism that requires a specific metabolic substance that the parent organism was able to synthesize by itself

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