Saprophytic

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  • adj. Relating to saprophytes or their life style.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or of the nature of saprophytes; growing on decaying vegetable matter. See Perisporiaceæ.
  • In zoology, engendered or growing in putrid infusions, as one of numberless infusorial animalcules; saprogenous: opposed to holophytic.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic material
  • adj. (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter
    • Equivalent
    herbivorous   
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