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“amphitrophic”
amphitrophic (adjective) (not comparable)
A reference to an organism that lives as a phototroph during daylight and as a chemotroph in darkness:
An amphitrophic organism, like a plant, can grow either in the day, photosynthetically; or at night, chemotrophically.
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ampho-, amph-, amphi-
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