adj. 1. stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. 'a`llos 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Of or pertaining to an antistrophe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t., [ imp. & p. p. Apostrophized p. pr. & vb. n. Apostrophizing. ] 1. To address by apostrophe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To use the rhetorical figure called apostrophe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to atrophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Auto- + trophic. ] (Plant Physiol.) Capable of self-nourishment; requiring only minerals for growth; using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, and certain bacteria. It is opposed to parasitism or saprophytism. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to an autotroph. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. B. Powell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geol.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Geol.) One who holds the theory or catastrophism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a growth hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; it stimulates the adrenal cortex; -- called also adrenocorticotropin and abbreviated ACTH.
Syn. -- adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin, ACTH. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. hypertrophique. ] (Med. & Biol.) Of or pertaining to hypertrophy; affected with, or tending to, hypertrophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med. & Biol.) Excessively developed; characterized by hypertrophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to physic nuts, the seeds of plants of the genus Jatropha. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. monostrofiko`s; mo`nos single + strofh` strophe. ] (Pros.) Having one strophe only; not varied in measure; written in unvaried measure. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ L. neuter + Gr. &unr_; loving. ] (Physiol.) One of a group of leukocytes whose granules stain only with neutral dyes; it is the chief phagocytic leukocyte in the circulating blood, comprising from 54% to 65% of the total number of leukocytes. -- Neu"tro*phil"ic a., Neu*troph"i*lous a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

a. [ Organo- + Gr. &unr_; to nourish. ] (Biol.) Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The care and support of orphans. [ R. ] Cotton Mather (1711). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, strophes. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Bot.) Furnished with a strophiole, or caruncle, or that which resembles it. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. strophiolum a little chaplet, dim. of strophium a band, Gr. &unr_;, dim. of &unr_; a twisted band: cf. F. strophiole. ] (Bot.) A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a feeder, fr. &unr_; to feed. ] (Zool.) The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillae, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; nursing. See Trophi. ] (Physiol.) Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adorned with trophies. [ 1913 Webster ]

The trophied arches, storied halls, invade. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. See Zoo-, and Trophic. ] (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the nourishment of animals. [ 1913 Webster ]