"photolithotroph" meaning in English

See photolithotroph in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: photolithotrophs [plural]
Etymology: From photo- + lithotroph. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|photo|lithotroph}} photo- + lithotroph Head templates: {{en-noun}} photolithotroph (plural photolithotrophs)
  1. A lithotroph that obtains energy from light and therefore uses inorganic electron donors only to fuel biosynthetic reactions. Wikipedia link: photolithotroph

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "photo",
        "3": "lithotroph"
      },
      "expansion": "photo- + lithotroph",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From photo- + lithotroph.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "photolithotrophs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "photolithotroph (plural photolithotrophs)",
      "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 photo-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lithotroph that obtains energy from light and therefore uses inorganic electron donors only to fuel biosynthetic reactions."
      ],
      "id": "en-photolithotroph-en-noun-6-kyuJBA",
      "links": [
        [
          "lithotroph",
          "lithotroph"
        ],
        [
          "energy",
          "energy"
        ],
        [
          "light",
          "light"
        ],
        [
          "inorganic",
          "inorganic"
        ],
        [
          "electron",
          "electron"
        ],
        [
          "donor",
          "donor"
        ],
        [
          "biosynthetic",
          "biosynthetic"
        ],
        [
          "reaction",
          "reaction"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "photolithotroph"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "photolithotroph"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "photo",
        "3": "lithotroph"
      },
      "expansion": "photo- + lithotroph",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From photo- + lithotroph.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "photolithotrophs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "photolithotroph (plural photolithotrophs)",
      "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 photo-",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lithotroph that obtains energy from light and therefore uses inorganic electron donors only to fuel biosynthetic reactions."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lithotroph",
          "lithotroph"
        ],
        [
          "energy",
          "energy"
        ],
        [
          "light",
          "light"
        ],
        [
          "inorganic",
          "inorganic"
        ],
        [
          "electron",
          "electron"
        ],
        [
          "donor",
          "donor"
        ],
        [
          "biosynthetic",
          "biosynthetic"
        ],
        [
          "reaction",
          "reaction"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "photolithotroph"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "photolithotroph"
}

Download raw JSONL data for photolithotroph meaning in English (1.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.