English words starting with tr - page 57

Meanings of Trophic:

adjective

Relating to feeding and nutrition.

Usage examples:

We also combined taxa into four functional groups based on known trophic positions and feeding pref…

combining form

Relating to nutrition.

Usage examples:

Oligotrophic

noun

The oval object with a hard shell that is produced by female birds, especially chickens, eaten ...

Meanings of Trophical:

adjective

Trophic.

Meanings of Trophically:

adverb

By trophic means; as regards trophic status or relationships.

Meanings of Trophies:

noun

A cup or other decorative object awarded as a prize for a victory or success.

Usage examples:

The age groups ranged from four to 20, with a trophy awarded for first prize and certificates for s…

Meanings of Trophism:

combining form

In nouns corresponding to adjectives ending in -trophic (such as phototropism corresponding to phototrophic ).

In nouns corresponding to adjectives ending in -trophic (such as phototropism corresponding to phototrophic).

Meanings of Trophobiont:

noun

An insect that produces a secretion used as food by another species.

Meanings of Trophoblast:

noun

A layer of tissue on the outside of a mammalian blastula, supplying the embryo with nourishment and later forming the major part of the placenta.

Usage examples:

The trophoblast eventually forms the placenta, through which the embryo proper receives dissolved n…

Meanings of Trophochromatin:

noun

Chromatin believed to be involved only in the regulation of metabolism and growth of a cell, rather than with its reproduction.

Meanings of Trophocyte:

noun

Any of various types of cell serving a nutritive function; especially a specialized cell of the fat body or a nurse cell of the ovary in an insect.

Meanings of Trophogenic:

adjective

Determined by or dependent upon feeding habits or diet.

Meanings of Trophology:

noun

Nutritional science (now rare or disused).

Meanings of Trophonema:

noun

(in certain viviparous fishes) any of the glandular uterine villi supplying nutrients to the embryos.

Meanings of Trophoneurosis:

noun

(originally) a disease or disorder of a trophic nerve (now historical); (in later use) a disorder resulting from impaired innervation (now rare).

Meanings of Trophoneurotic:

adjective

Of, relating to, or of the nature of a trophoneurosis.

Meanings of Trophonian:

adjective

Of or relating to trophonius, the deified legendary builder of the original temple of apollo at delphi, whose oracle in a boeotian cave was said to affect those who entered with such awe that they never smiled again. hence (figurative): gloomy, saturnine.

Meanings of Trophonucleus:

noun

= macronucleus .

Meanings of Trophoplasm:

noun

Protoplasm or cytoplasm believed to serve a nutritive function only; compare idioplasm , "kinoplasm".

Meanings of Trophoplasmic:

noun

Protoplasm or cytoplasm believed to serve a nutritive function only; compare idioplasm , "kinoplasm".

Meanings of Trophosomal:

adjective

Of or relating to a trophosome.

Meanings of Trophosome:

noun

(in a hydrozoan) the aggregate of non-reproductive zooids serving a primarily nutritive role.

Meanings of Trophosperm:

noun

The internal part of the pericarp of a fruit, to which the seeds are attached.

Meanings of Trophosphere:

noun

A spherical structure or layer of tissue formed in the early stages of implantation of the blastocyst.

Meanings of Trophospongia:

noun

A layer of tissue containing numerous vascular spaces, formed between the ovum and uterine lining in the early stages of implantation.

Meanings of Trophospongial:

adjective

Of or relating to the trophospongia.

Meanings of Trophotaxis:

noun

Movement of an organism towards or away from a source of nutrients.