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trophosome
1. An organ used in the production of or in the securing of nourishment as distinct from reproduction.
2. A bodily organ in deep-sea tube worms that is colonized by bacteria supplying the host worm with food and energy.
3. The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome (reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony), or other reproductive zooids (organic bodies or cells).
2. A bodily organ in deep-sea tube worms that is colonized by bacteria supplying the host worm with food and energy.
3. The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome (reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony), or other reproductive zooids (organic bodies or cells).
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tropho-, troph-, -trophy, -trophs, -trophically, -trophic, -trophous
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