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photoautotroph

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pho-toau-totroph
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

an organism, such as all green plants, that can synthesize its own food from inorganic material using light as a source of energy

Etymology

From photo- (from the combining form φωτω- (phōtō-) of Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs, “light”)) + autotroph, from auto- (from Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”)) + -troph (from Ancient Greek τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”)).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

photoautotrophs (plural)

Derived Forms

photoautotrophic picophotoautotroph

Frequently Paired Words

photosynthesis

Questions

What does photoautotroph mean?
an organism, such as all green plants, that can synthesize its own food from inorganic material using light as a source of energy
Where does photoautotroph come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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