Usually means: Organisms that produce own food.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. autotroph: Merriam-Webster
  2. autotroph: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. autotroph: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. autotroph: Collins English Dictionary
  5. autotroph: Vocabulary.com
  6. autotroph: Wordnik
  7. autotroph: Wiktionary
  8. autotroph: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. autotroph: Dictionary.com
  10. Autotroph: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. autotroph: Rhymezone
  12. autotroph: FreeDictionary.org
  13. autotroph: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. autotroph: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. autotroph: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. autotroph: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. autotroph: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  5. autotroph: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. autotroph: Natural History Terms

(Note: See autotrophs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (autotroph)

noun:  (ecology) Any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.

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