"allotroph" meaning in All languages combined

See allotroph on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: allotrophs [plural]
Etymology: allo- + -troph Etymology templates: {{confix|en|allo|troph}} allo- + -troph Head templates: {{en-noun}} allotroph (plural allotrophs)
  1. (rare) Synonym of heterotroph Tags: rare Synonyms: heterotroph [synonym, synonym-of] Derived forms: allotrophic

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for allotroph meaning in All languages combined (2.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "allo",
        "3": "troph"
      },
      "expansion": "allo- + -troph",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "allo- + -troph",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "allotrophs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "allotroph (plural allotrophs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with allo-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -troph",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "allotrophic"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968, M. S. Mani, Ecology and Biogeography of High Altitude Insects, page 406",
          "text": "The ecosystems of the extra-polar high mountains are described as anabolic-allotroph systems, but those of the Antarctic mountains are katabolic autotoph systems.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, Stephen H. Dole, Habitable Planets for Man, page 142",
          "text": "A living thing using only inorganic materials as food, as opposed to heterotrophs, allotrophs, parasites, or saprophytes, which depend on other organisms for nutrition."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, Roger Pearson, Introduction to Anthropology, page 39",
          "text": "[We see the] plants as synthesizing autotrophs, extracting energy from light and storing it in organic form, and the animals as predatory allotrophs, consuming organic material in order to secure energy, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Israel Journal of Entomology, volumes 12-14, page 138",
          "text": "It is possible that at a young age these secondary host plants (allotrophs) have a similar chemistry to that of the primary hosts that is also attractant and palatable for the beetles. It is also possible that the allotrophs are actually phytochemically […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of heterotroph"
      ],
      "id": "en-allotroph-en-noun-mPOVvWPH",
      "links": [
        [
          "heterotroph",
          "heterotroph#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) Synonym of heterotroph"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "heterotroph"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "allotroph"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "allotrophic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "allo",
        "3": "troph"
      },
      "expansion": "allo- + -troph",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "allo- + -troph",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "allotrophs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "allotroph (plural allotrophs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with allo-",
        "English terms suffixed with -troph",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968, M. S. Mani, Ecology and Biogeography of High Altitude Insects, page 406",
          "text": "The ecosystems of the extra-polar high mountains are described as anabolic-allotroph systems, but those of the Antarctic mountains are katabolic autotoph systems.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, Stephen H. Dole, Habitable Planets for Man, page 142",
          "text": "A living thing using only inorganic materials as food, as opposed to heterotrophs, allotrophs, parasites, or saprophytes, which depend on other organisms for nutrition."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, Roger Pearson, Introduction to Anthropology, page 39",
          "text": "[We see the] plants as synthesizing autotrophs, extracting energy from light and storing it in organic form, and the animals as predatory allotrophs, consuming organic material in order to secure energy, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Israel Journal of Entomology, volumes 12-14, page 138",
          "text": "It is possible that at a young age these secondary host plants (allotrophs) have a similar chemistry to that of the primary hosts that is also attractant and palatable for the beetles. It is also possible that the allotrophs are actually phytochemically […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of heterotroph"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heterotroph",
          "heterotroph#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) Synonym of heterotroph"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "heterotroph"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "allotroph"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.