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-ˈfɪt ɪksapro·phyt·ic

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. saprophyticadjective

    obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic material

  2. saprophyticadjective

    (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter

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  1. saprophyticadjective

    Relating to saprophytes or their life style.

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  1. saprophytic

    Saprotrophic nutrition or lysotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter. It occurs in saprotrophs, and is most often associated with fungi (for example Mucor) and soil bacteria. Saprotrophic microscopic fungi are sometimes called saprobes; saprotrophic plants or bacterial flora are called saprophytes (sapro- 'rotten material' + -phyte 'plant'), although it is now believed that all plants previously thought to be saprotrophic are in fact parasites of microscopic fungi or other plants. The process is most often facilitated through the active transport of such materials through endocytosis within the internal mycelium and its constituent hyphae.Various word roots relating to decayed matter (detritus, sapro-), eating and nutrition (-vore, -phage), and plants or life forms (-phyte, -obe) produce various terms, such as detritivore, detritophage, saprotroph, saprophyte, saprophage, and saprobe; their meanings overlap, although technical distinctions (based on physiologic mechanisms) narrow the senses. For example, usage distinctions can be made based on macroscopic swallowing of detritus (as an earthworm does) versus microscopic lysis of detritus (as a mushroom does).

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  1. saprophytic

    Saprophytic refers to organisms, typically fungi and bacteria, that obtain nutrients from decomposing organic matter. These organisms play a significant role in breaking down and recycling dead plant and animal material.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Saprophyticadjective

    feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of saprophytic in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of saprophytic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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