Unusual, irregular, or abnormal nutrition or the manner in which an organism obtains nourishment, especially in parasites or unusual feeding strategies.
From Greek anomalos 'uneven' plus trophe 'nourishment.' The term describes feeding methods that deviate from typical nutritional patterns for a species or group, particularly in parasites and organisms with specialized diets.
Some parasites have figured out the weirdest ways to feed—they steal nutrients in ways their non-parasitic cousins never dreamed of, and anomalotrophy is the fancy term for these nutritional rule-breakers!
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