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saprobiotic, a. Biol.|ˌsæprəʊbaɪˈɒtɪk|
[f. Gr. σαπρός putrid + βιωτικ-ός pertaining to life.]
= saprobic a.
1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 740/2 Saprobiotic, feeding on dead or decaying animals or plants. 1950P. D. F. Murray Biology xlvii. 52 A saprobiotic organism (the term covers ‘saprozoic’ and ‘saprophytic’) is one which lives on the dead bodies of other organisms or their inanimate products. 1960E. N. Willmer Cytol. & Evolution ix. 151 Many flagellates..depend for their energy supplies on the extraction of materials dissolved in the fluid in which they are swimming, i.e. they lead a saprobiotic existence.
Hence saprobiˈotically adv.
1957G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. ix. 623 Living plankton metabolizing its reserves or living saprobiotically. |