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saprophytes
n. (plural of saprophyte English)
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Saprophytes
Saprophytes may refer to
- Saprotroph, a term used for organisms which obtain nutrients from dead organic matter (this term commonly applies to fungi)
- Saprophytes are more generally plants, fungi, or micro-organisms more accurately called myco-heterotrophs because they actually parasitize fungi, rather than dead organic matter directly. They live on dead or decomposing matter.
Usage examples of "saprophytes".
You know, from the fertilizer that bacteria, yeast, fungi, and saprophytes generally need.
Proceeding into Athander he worked a month in the forests, clearing the trees of saprophytes and pest-bug.
These are soft as cheese, these parasites or saprophytes or symbiotes, whatever the case may be, creating a treacherously slippery surface, but it is difficult to avoid walking on them.