English Explanatory Dictionary

methylotroph

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any organism that uses simple methyl compounds (such as methane or methanol) as a source of carbon and of energy

Word forms

methylotroph methylotrophs

Etymology

From methyl + -o- + -troph.

Related words

methanotroph
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