\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.