trophic
Concerning nourishment processes
Trophic is a technical adjective relating to nutrition or feeding, used primarily in biology and ecology.
A trophic level describes an organism's position in a food chain—plants occupy the first trophic level, herbivores the second, and predators higher levels still.
Trophic cascades occur when changes at one level ripple through an ecosystem.
In medicine, trophic refers to tissue nourishment: trophic ulcers result from poor blood supply to an area.
Interconnected predator-prey relationships
- food chainEcological feeding hierarchy
- ecosystemInterconnected organisms and surroundings
- producerOne who makes things
- consumerOne who acquires goods
decomposer · autotroph · heterotroph · herbivore · carnivore · omnivore · detritivore · apex predator
Cell-proliferation signaling molecule
- hormoneBody's chemical messenger
- trophoblastEmbryonic implantation cells
- eutrophicExcessively fertilized water body
- mesotrophicModerate nutrient concentration
Bodily use of food
- foragingSeeking wild food sources
- filter-feedingTrapping particles from water
- grazingFeeding on pasture
- predationHunting and consuming prey
parasitism · ingestion · assimilation · gut flora · digestive · absorption
Interspecies biological interdependence
- mutualismTwo-way biological benefit
- commensalismNeutral host, benefiting guest
- parasitismOne benefits, one suffers
- predator-preyEcological consumption relationship
host · pathogen · epiphyte · mycorrhizae · nitrogen fixation · coevolution · interspecific · competition
food web
Interconnected predator-prey relationships
- food chainEcological feeding hierarchy
- ecosystemInterconnected organisms and surroundings
- producerOne who makes things
consumer · decomposer · autotroph · heterotroph · herbivore · carnivore · omnivore · detritivore · apex predator · keystone species
growth factor
Cell-proliferation signaling molecule
- hormoneBody's chemical messenger
- trophoblastEmbryonic implantation cells
- eutrophicExcessively fertilized water body
nutrition
Bodily use of food
- foragingSeeking wild food sources
- filter-feedingTrapping particles from water
- grazingFeeding on pasture
predation · parasitism · ingestion · assimilation · gut flora · digestive · absorption
symbiosis
Interspecies biological interdependence
- mutualismTwo-way biological benefit
- commensalismNeutral host, benefiting guest
- parasitismOne benefits, one suffers
predator-prey · host · pathogen · epiphyte · mycorrhizae · nitrogen fixation · coevolution · interspecific · competition
trophicatrophic
Shrunken from disuse
dystrophic · catabolic · degenerative · wasting · malnourishing
trophicstructural
Relating to building framework
anatomical · morphological · mechanical · architectural · spatial
atrophy, hypertrophy, dystrophy, atrophic, hypertrophic, dystrophic