The Collaborative International Dictionary
Holophytic
Holophytic \Hol`o*phyt"ic\, a. [Holo + Gr.? a plant.] Wholly or distinctively vegetable.
Holophytic nutrition, that form of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion of albuminous matter.
Wiktionary
holophytic
a. (context biology English) That can obtain nutrition without the ingestion of food
WordNet
holophytic
adj. obtaining nourishment as green plants do [ant: holozoic]