"auxotrophy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "auxo",
        "3": "trophy"
      },
      "expansion": "auxo- + -trophy",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From auxo- + -trophy.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "auxotrophies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "auxotrophy (usually uncountable, plural auxotrophies)",
      "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 auxo-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -trophy",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Biology",
          "orig": "en:Biology",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "prototrophy"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 March, K. C. Atwood, “Periodic Selection in Escherichia Coli”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 37, number 3, page 146:",
          "text": "There are reasons for believing that the mutation rates to auxotrophy are in general higher than the rates to prototrophy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The inability of a microorganism to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, often as a result of mutation."
      ],
      "id": "en-auxotrophy-en-noun-kKVKznY3",
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "inability",
          "inability"
        ],
        [
          "microorganism",
          "microorganism"
        ],
        [
          "synthesize",
          "synthesize"
        ],
        [
          "organic compound",
          "organic compound"
        ],
        [
          "mutation",
          "mutation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology) The inability of a microorganism to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, often as a result of mutation."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "auxotroph"
        },
        {
          "word": "auxotrophic"
        },
        {
          "word": "auxotrophically"
        },
        {
          "word": "autotrophy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "auxotrophy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "auxotrophy"
}

{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "prototrophy"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "auxo",
        "3": "trophy"
      },
      "expansion": "auxo- + -trophy",
      "name": "confix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From auxo- + -trophy.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "auxotrophies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "auxotrophy (usually uncountable, plural auxotrophies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "auxotroph"
    },
    {
      "word": "auxotrophic"
    },
    {
      "word": "auxotrophically"
    },
    {
      "word": "autotrophy"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with auxo-",
        "English terms suffixed with -trophy",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Biology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 March, K. C. Atwood, “Periodic Selection in Escherichia Coli”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 37, number 3, page 146:",
          "text": "There are reasons for believing that the mutation rates to auxotrophy are in general higher than the rates to prototrophy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The inability of a microorganism to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, often as a result of mutation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "inability",
          "inability"
        ],
        [
          "microorganism",
          "microorganism"
        ],
        [
          "synthesize",
          "synthesize"
        ],
        [
          "organic compound",
          "organic compound"
        ],
        [
          "mutation",
          "mutation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology) The inability of a microorganism to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, often as a result of mutation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "auxotrophy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "auxotrophy"
}