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单词 polytrophic
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polytrophicadj.

Brit. /ˌpɒlɪˈtrɒfɪk/, /ˌpɒlɪˈtrəʊfɪk/, U.S. /ˌpɑliˈtrɑfɪk/, /ˌpɑliˈtroʊfɪk/
Forms: 1600s polytrophick, 1900s– polytrophic.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: poly- comb. form, -trophic comb. form.
Etymology: < poly- comb. form + -trophic comb. form. In sense 1 after Hellenistic Greek πολυτρόϕος supplying food, nutritious, highly nourished. In sense 2 after German polytroph (1897 in the passage translated in quot. 19001 at sense 2); compare also post-classical Latin polytrofus nutritious (c400). With sense 4 compare earlier mesotrophic adj., oligotrophic adj. 2.
1. Highly nutritious. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > nourishing
nourishing1340
marrowya1382
nutrimentala1398
feeding1398
marroweda1400
nourishanta1400
nurshing?c1425
nutritivec1450
nutrativec1487
nourishable1496
hearty?1550
battling1555
nurturable1579
alimental1586
nutrible1607
alimentary1608
nutrimentive1610
refective1611
battlesome1627
alible1653
nurturing?a1659
alimentous1659
alimonious1659
polytrophic1659
nutrient1661
nutritious1665
alimentarious1671
foodful1735
nutritionarya1852
nutritional1858
nutraceutical1990
1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια sig. *7 As for meat, it's such as is euchymick & polytrophick, or of good juice and of much nourishment.
2. Biology. Feeding on several kinds of food; obtaining nutrients in more than one way; spec. (of a parasitic organism) infesting many host species; (of a bee) visiting the flowers of many species (= polytropic adj. 3).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > belonging to division Anthophila > of or belonging to bees > collecting nectar of different kinds of flowers
polytropic1899
polytrophic1900
1900 A. C. Jones tr. A. Fischer Struct. & Functions Bacteria 49 I. Prototrophic Bacteria..occur only in the open in nature, never parasitic, always monotrophic. II. Metatrophic Bacteria,..(facultative parasites), monotrophic or polytrophic.
1900 Nature 13 Sept. 465/1 Sometimes parasitic (facultative parasites), monotrophic or polytrophic [bacteria].
1946 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 15 10 The term monotrophic (or -tropic) is applied to species of bees which restrict their visits to one species of plant, oligotrophic to those which only visit the flowers of a few closely related species.., and polytrophic to those which visit a wide range of species.
1984 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 71 892/1 Apis mellifera, an introduced species which is notably polytrophic in terms of its foraging behavior.
1998 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 43 1643/2 Corals have a polytrophic feeding strategy.
3. Entomology. Of an ovariole: having trophocytes or nurse cells enclosed in the follicle with the oocytes.
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1925 A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. 150 Three principal types of ovarioles are recognized... (a) The panoistic type... (b) The polytrophic type... (c) The acrotrophic type... Types (b) and (c) are often grouped as one type—meroistic.
1989 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 86 3749/1 Each ovary of D. melanogaster contains an average of 16 polytrophic ovarioles.
1998 R. F. Chapman Insects (ed. 4) xiii. 302/1 In polytrophic ovarioles, all the cytoplasmic contents are moved to the oocyte when the trophocytes collapse.
4. Ecology. Of a lake: rich in nutrients, or a particular category of nutrient.
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1931 Jrnl. Ecol. 19 247 [For waters] Naumann..has elaborated a concept of so-called environmental spectra (Milieuspektra), distinguishing for each factor (nutritive salts, detritus, dissolved gases..) three grades, the oligotrophic, mesotrophic and polytrophic grades.
1942 New Phytologist 41 171 The colourless saprophytic Euglenineae..are especially common in cultures inoculated with mud from the bottom of polytrophic waters.
1990 Jrnl. Ecol. 78 839 The concentrations of ash, nitrogen and phosphorus in roots, rhizomes and shoots were significantly higher in the polytrophic Forfar Loch than in the eutrophicated Balgavies Loch.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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