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Meaning of "oligotrophy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OLIGOTROPHY

oligotrophy  [ˌɒlɪˈɡɒtrəfɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OLIGOTROPHY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Oligotrophy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OLIGOTROPHY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

oligotrophy

Oligotroph

An Oligotroph is an organism that can live in an environment that offers very low levels of nutrients. They may be contrasted with copiotrophs, which prefer nutritionally rich environments. Oligotrophs are characterized by slow growth, low rates of metabolism, and generally low population density. The adjective oligotrophic may be used to refer to environments that offer little to sustain life, organisms that survive in such environments, or the adaptations that support survival. Etymologically, the word "oligoptroph" is a combination of the Greek adjective oligos meaning "few" and the adjective trophikos ) meaning "feeding". Oligotrophic environments include deep oceanic sediments, caves, glacial and polar ice, deep subsurface soil, aquifers, ocean waters, and leached soils. Examples of oligotrophic organisms are the cave-dwelling olm, the bacterium, Pelagibacter ubique, which is the most abundant organism in the oceans with an estimated 2 × 1028 individuals in total, and the lichens with their extremely low metabolic rate.

Definition of oligotrophy in the English dictionary

The definition of oligotrophy in the dictionary is the state of being oligotrophic.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OLIGOTROPHY


amyotrophy
ˌæmɪˈɒtrəfɪ
anastrophe
əˈnæstrəfɪ
antistrophe
ænˈtɪstrəfɪ
apostrophe
əˈpɒstrəfɪ
atrophy
ˈætrəfɪ
cacotrophy
kæˈkɒtrəfɪ
catastrophe
kəˈtæstrəfɪ
dystrophy
ˈdɪstrəfɪ
ecocatastrophe
ˌiːkəʊkəˈtæstrəfɪ
epistrophe
ɪˈpɪstrəfɪ
eutrophy
ˈjuːtrəfɪ
exstrophy
ˈɛkstrəfɪ
heterotrophy
ˌhɛtəˈrɒtrəfɪ
hypertrophy
haɪˈpɜːtrəfɪ
hypostrophe
haɪˈpɒstrəfɪ
leukodystrophy
ˌluːkəʊˈdɪstrəfɪ
lipodystrophy
ˌlɪpəʊˈdɪstrəfɪ
monostrophe
mɒˈnɒstrəfɪ
neurotrophy
njʊrˈɒtrəfɪ
paedotrophy
piːˈdɒtrəfɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OLIGOTROPHY

oligogene
oligomer
oligomeric
oligomerisation
oligomerization
oligomerous
oligonucleotide
oligopeptide
oligophagous
oligophagy
oligopolies
oligopolistic
oligopoly
oligopsonies
oligopsonistic
oligopsony
oligosaccharide
oligospermia
oligotrophic
oliguresis

WORDS THAT END LIKE OLIGOTROPHY

abiotrophy
analytical philosophy
anthroposophy
autotrophy
auxotrophy
chemoautotrophy
Doctor of Philosophy
Duchenne dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
moral philosophy
muscular dystrophy
natural philosophy
philosophy
prototrophy
Schneider Trophy
scholastic philosophy
Sophy
theosophy
trophy
zootrophy

Synonyms and antonyms of oligotrophy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «oligotrophy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OLIGOTROPHY

Find out the translation of oligotrophy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of oligotrophy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «oligotrophy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

营养不足
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

oligotrofia
570 millions of speakers

English

oligotrophy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

oligotrophy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قلة التغذية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гипотрофия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

oligotrofia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

oligotrophy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

oligotrophie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Oligotrofi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Oligotrophie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

栄養不良
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

oligotrophy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Oligotrofi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

oligotrophy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

oligotrophy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऑलिगोट्रॉफी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

oligotrophy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

oligotrofia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

oligotrophy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гіпотрофія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

oligotrophy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ολιγοτροφίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oligotrophy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oligotrophy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oligotrophy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of oligotrophy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OLIGOTROPHY»

The term «oligotrophy» is used very little and occupies the 174.222 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OLIGOTROPHY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «oligotrophy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «oligotrophy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about oligotrophy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OLIGOTROPHY»

Discover the use of oligotrophy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oligotrophy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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EPA 650/3
United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Development, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Monitoring. THE CLASSIFICATION OF OLIGOTROPHY AND EUTROPHY The ...
United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Development, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Monitoring, 1979
2
Hydrological and Limnological Aspects of Lake Monitoring
Index Calculation Result Reference Thunmark's Chlorococcales s l = oligotrophy Thunmark chlorophycean index spp./ > I =eutrophy (I945) Nygaard's myxophycean index Desmidiales spp. C yanophyceae spp./ s l = oligotrophy Desmidiales ...
Pertti Heinonen, Giuliano Ziglio, André Van der Beken, 2008
3
Bacteria in Oligotrophic Environments: Starvation-survival ...
Providing over 2000 references, this is the first book to examine the ecological and physiological consequences of oligotrophy (a lack of energy to support microbial growth) on microbes in their environment.
‎1997
4
U.S. Geological Survey Circular
Dy» trophy Oligotrophy Eutrophy AUTOTROPHY Figure 2. -Summary of the major trophic types of lakes (modified from Rodhe, 1969, and Wetzel, 1975). A second important point is that both eutrophication and dystrophication are continuums.
‎1981
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Soil Microbial Associations: Control of Structures and Functions
3.10 Degree of oligotrophya of the microflora of different soils (ARISTOVSKAYA, 1965) Degree of oligotrophy"l Sell . . Actino- Total Fungi Bacteria . _ mycetes microflora Ferric podzol 1.2 1.2 ~ 1.2 Superficially podzolic (National Park, Kivach) ...
V. Vancura, F. Kunc, 2012
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Circular
Unenriched lakes are classified as oligotrophy. Oligotrophy lakes have high concentrations of dissolved oxygen at all depths, low concentrations of dissolved substances, and usually clear waters. Although sufficient oxygen is available to ...
‎1968
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The Eastern Mediterranean as a Laboratory Basin for the ...
In particular, we focused on its renowned oligotrophy, because this has always been the starting point of any debate on the EMED. Oligotrophy has not always been the status of the basin. Geological records (and maybe also records from ...
Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, Valery N. Eremeev, 1999
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Essential Readings in Wildlife Management and Conservation
It is well known that in the initial phases of hydrarch succession (oligotrophy —> eutrophy) productivity increases rapidly; it is equally apparent that the colonization of a bare terrestrial area represents a similar acceleration in productivity.
Paul R. Krausman, Bruce D. Leopold, 2013
9
Soil Ecology
Regardless of how soil fungi scavenge carbon and other nutrients under oligotrophic conditions, the concept of oligotrophy has far-reaching implications to our understanding of soil ecology. The view that soil fungal activity can only be  ...
Ken Killham, 1994
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Large Ecosystem Perturbations: Causes and Consequences
97, p. 85–111. Bralower, T.J., 2002, Evidence of surface water oligotrophy during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: Nannofossil assemblage data from Ocean Drilling Program Site 690, Maud Rise, Weddell Sea: Paleoceanography, v .
Simonetta Monechi, R. Coccioni, Michael R. Rampino, 2007

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« EDUCALINGO. Oligotrophy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/oligotrophy>. Apr 2024 ».
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