heterotroph
noun /ˈhetərətrəʊf/, /ˈhetərətrɒf/
/ˈhetərətrəʊf/
(biology)- a living thing that gets its food from the body of another living thing and does not make it from simpler substances compare autotrophWord Originearly 20th cent.: from hetero- ‘other’ + Greek trophos ‘feeder’.