In a manner relating to or characteristic of plants that produce their own food through photosynthesis.
From 'autophytic' plus the adverb suffix '-ally'. This adverbial form is extremely rare and archaic in modern botanical literature.
This is one of those words that linguists love—it's technically correct but so unwieldy that nobody actually uses it, which is why 'autotrophically' won out in scientific writing!
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