1. relating to feeding, and to the food necessary for growth

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2. (of a hormone or its effect) causing the release of another hormone or other substance into the blood
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from Greek trophikos, from trophÄ“ ‘nourishment’, from trephein ‘nourish’.

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