English Explanatory Dictionary

myco-heterotrophy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than from photosynthesis.

Word forms

myco-heterotrophy mycoheterotrophy

Etymology

From myco- + heterotrophy.

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