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saprophyte


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Saprophyte  \Sap"ro*phyte\,  n.  [Gr.  sapro`s  rotten  +  fyto`n  a 
  plant.]  (Bot.) 
  Any  plant  growing  on  decayed  animal  or  vegetable  matter,  as 
  most  fungi  and  some  flowering  plants  with  no  green  color,  as 
  the  Indian  pipe. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  saprophyte 
  n  :  an  organism  that  feeds  on  dead  organic  matter  especially  a 
  fungus  or  bacterium  [syn:  {saprophytic  organism}] 




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