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saprophytic


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Saprophytic  \Sap`ro*phyt"ic\,  a. 
  Feeding  or  growing  upon  decaying  animal  or  vegetable  matter; 
  pertaining  to  a  saprophyte  or  the  saprophytes. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  saprophytic 
  adj  1:  obtaining  food  osmotically  from  dissolved  organic  material 
  2:  (of  some  plants  or  fungi)  nourished  on  dead  or  decaying 
  organic  matter 




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