Wiktionary
chemoautotrophic
a. (context biology of an organism English) obtaining its nutrition through the oxidation of non-organic compounds (or other chemical processes); as opposed to the process of photosynthesis.
Usage examples of "chemoautotrophic".
Eighty years ago, an experiment in accelerated evolution of chemoautotrophic vacuum organisms had been set up on a planetoid in the outer edge of the Kuiper Belt.
There are some 690,000 species of photoautotrophic, chemoautotrophic, and mixotrophic plants — with green photoautotrophs making up the majority of micro and macroflora.