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noun an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor. English hetero- English -troph English heterotroph From hetero- (“other”) + -troph (“nutrition”).
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