Allotrophic

Al`lo*troph"ic, a. [Gr. other + trophic.]

(a) (Physiol.) Changed or modified in nutritive power by the process of digestion.

(b) (Plant Physiol.) Dependent upon other organisms for nutrition; heterotrophic; -- said of plants unable to perform photosynthesis, as all saprophytes; -- opposed to autotrophic.