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‖ Saprolegnia Bot.|sæprəʊˈlɛgnɪə|
[mod.L., f. Gr. σαπρό-ς putrid + λέγν-ον border.]
A genus of fungi (the type of the N.O. Saprolegnieæ or Saprolegniaceæ), which chiefly infests the bodies of fish.
1866Berkeley in Treas. Bot. s.v. Saprolegnieæ, The same animal has been observed, when immersed, to produce a Saprolegnia, and when surrounded merely by air to produce a Mucor. 1882Huxley in Nature 9 Mar. 438/2, I tried some experiments on the transplantation of the Saprolegnia of the living salmon to dead animal bodies. 1885Klein Micro-Organisms 146 Saprolegnia: colourless tubular threads, forming gelatinous masses on living and dead animal and vegetable matter in fresh water.
Hence saproˈlegnious a. (see quot. 1900); saproˈlegnized ppl. a., diseased with saprolegnia.
1882Huxley in Nature 9 Mar. 439/1 The conditions under which my saprolegnised flies were placed. 1900B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms, Saprolegnious, allied to the genus Saprolegnia. |