autotrophic

The definition of autotrophic is capable of making its own food supply using inorganic materials and photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.

(adjective)

Moss and algae are both an example of something that is autotrophic.

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See autotrophic in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

making its own food by photosynthesis, as a green plant does, or by chemosynthesis, as any of certain bacteria do

Origin: auto- + trophic

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