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The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillæ, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.

Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.

Adorned with trophies. The trophied arches, storied halls, invade. Pope.

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.

To address by apostrophe.

Relating to atrophy.

Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary.

Capable of self-nourishment; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, as opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.

Boustrophedonic.

Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. B. Powell.

The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of uniformism.

One who holds the theory or catastrophism.

Of or pertaining to hypertrophy; affected with, or tending to, hypertrophy.

Excessively developed; characterized by hypertrophy.

Of or pertaining to physic nuts, the seeds of plants of the genus Jatropha.

Having one strophe only; not varied in measure; written in unvaried measure. Milton.

One of a group of leucocytes whose granules stain only with neutral dyes. -- Neu"tro*phil"ic (#), a., Neu*troph"i*lous (#), a.

Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts.

The care and support of orphans. [R.] Cotton Mather (1711).