The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
adj. Having waters rich in mineral and organic nutrients that promote a proliferation of plant life, especially algae, which reduces the dissolved oxygen content and often causes the extinction of other organisms. Used of a lake or pond.
adj. being rich in nutrients and minerals and therefore having an excessive growth of algae and thus a diminished oxygen content to the detriment of other organisms
adj. promoting nutrition
n. a eutrophic medicine
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Pertaining to or promoting healthy nutrition.
n. A medical agent employed to improve the nutrition.
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adj. (ecology) of a lake or other body of water rich in nutrients and subject to eutrophication
Word Usage
"Within the miombo vegetation, "islands" of other vegetation types, such as eutrophic savanna on richer soils, river terraces and floodplains, provide superior forage."