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saprophyte|ˈsæprəʊfaɪt|
[f. Gr. σαπρό-ς putrid + ϕυτόν plant: see -phyte.]
Any vegetable organism that lives on decayed organic matter.
1875Encycl. Brit. III. 691/1 There are other degraded allies of green plants, which are content to work up again the imperfectly broken down products of decay. Such plants are termed Saprophytes. 1882S. Walpole & Huxley in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XXII. 332 The common moulds,..which are habitually saprophytes (that is to say, live on decaying organic matter).
Hence saˈprophytal (B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 1900), saprophytic |-ˈfɪtɪk| adjs., of or pertaining to saprophytes; saproˈphytically adv., after the manner of saprophytes; saˈprophytism, the state of living as a saprophyte.
1882H. M. Ward in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. Jan. 2 The appearance of various saprophytic fungi on the old shrivelled spot indicates the completion of the destruction. 1887Garnsey & Balfour tr. De Bary's Fungi 356 Species of purely and strictly saprophytic..mode of life. 1890A. Whitelegge Hygiene & Public Health x. 227 Cultivation in non-living media, that is, a form of saprophytism, is [etc.]. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 257 The fungus being merely saprophytic. 1904Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Dec. 1509 All the known parasitic bacterial species (with the exception of the leprosy bacilli)..can thrive also saprophytically. |