- relating to feeding, and to the food necessary for growth营养的;营养有关的
- (of a hormone or its effect激素或其作用) causing the release of another hormone or other substance into the blood引起其他激素(或物质)分泌的;有分泌作用的
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from Greek trophikos, from trophē ‘nourishment’, from trephein ‘nourish’.