Definition of Holozoic

1. Adjective. Obtaining nourishment as animals do by ingesting complex organic matter.

Antonyms: Holophytic

Definition of Holozoic

1. Adjective. Obtaining nutrition, as most animals, by the ingestion of organic matter. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Holozoic

1. eating solid foods [adj]

Medical Definition of Holozoic

1. Animal-like in mode of obtaining nourishment, lacking photosynthetic capacity; denoting certain protozoans, in distinction to others that are holophytic. Origin: holo-+ G. Zoon, animal (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Holozoic

holothurian
holothurians
holothurin
holothurins
holothurioidea
holotoxin
holotoxins
holotricha
holotrichous
holotropic
holotype
holotypes
holotypic
holours
holozoic (current term)
holp
holpen
hols
holsom
holsteins
holster
holstered
holstering
holsters
holt
holtedahlite
holtite
holts
holtzman inkblot test

Literary usage of Holozoic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Protozoa by Gary Nathan Calkins (1901)
"A close connection between holozoic Fig. 71. ... The food of the holozoic flagellates consists of bacteria and minute bits of disintegrated proteid matter. ..."

2. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"... which is continued into two flagella. At the anterior end of the body are two or three flagella on each side. holozoic, and perhaps in part saprophytic. ..."

3. Lessons in Elementary Biology by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1893)
"nutrition holozoic : reproduction by simple or binary fission i 2. ... and holozoic : reproduction by binary and multiple fission . ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Bilaterally symmetrical, often creeping, pharynx highly developed, with a firm rod-like skeleton, sometimes protrusible; nutrition saprophytic and holozoic. ..."

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