Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
obtaining nourishment as green plants do;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Holophytic \Hol`o*phyt"ic\, a. [Holo + Gr.? a plant.]
Wholly or distinctively vegetable.
[1913 Webster]
Holophytic nutrition, that form of nutrition,
characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic
acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in
distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the
ingestion of albuminous matter.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
holophytic
adj 1: obtaining nourishment as green plants do [ant:
holozoic]