adjective
- feeding by ingesting organic material; characteristic of organisms that obtain nutrition by consuming other organisms or organic matter
Usage: biology; formal
Examples
- Most animals are holozoic organisms that must consume food to survive.
- The holozoic mode of nutrition is typical of all mammals and insects.
- Unlike plants, holozoic creatures cannot produce their own energy from sunlight.
- Bacteria can be holozoic, absorbing nutrients from their environment.
- The holozoic diet of predators depends on hunting other animals.