Look up: saprophyte

1. Saprophyte
   an organism that obtains nutrition from dead organic matter.
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2. saprophyte
   Organism which feeds on dead and decaying organisms, allowing the nutrients to be recycled into the ecosystem. Fungi and bacteria are two groups with many important saprophytes.
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3. Saprophyte
   a plant lacking chlorophyll that obtains its nutrients from dead organic matter. The bacteria and fungi of decay are examples, but there are also flowering plants like the white Indian pipes of eastern US Temperate Broadleaf Deciduous Forests or the giant Rafflesia of the Indo-Malyasian formation of...
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4. saprophyte
   See saprobe.
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5. Saprophyte
   Organisms (usually fungus) living on dead and decaying tissue.
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6. saprophyte
   [n] - an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium
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7. saprophyte
   a plant organism that is incapable of synthesising its nutrient requirements from purely inorganic sources and feeds on dead organic material,commonly assisting its decay Category: Botany and zoology • a plant organism that is incapable of synthesizing its nutrient requirements from pure...
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8. Saprophyte
   An organism that carries out external digestion of non-living organic matter and absorbs the products across the plasma membrane of its cells (e.g. fungi).
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9. saprophyte
   Organism that feeds on complex organic materials, often the dead and decaying bodies of other organisms. Many fungi are saprophytic
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10. Saprophyte
    Sap'ro·phyte noun [ Greek sapro`s rotten + fyto`n a plant.] (Botany) Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.
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11. saprophyte
    <microbiology> An organism whose nutrition involves uptake of dissolved organic material from decaying plant or animal matter. ... Origin: Gr. Phyton = plant ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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12. saprophyte
    saprophytic organism noun an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium
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13. saprophyte
    (sap´ro-fīt) any organism, such as a bacterium or protozoon, living upon dead or decaying organic matter. For fungi, the preferred term is saprobe. adj., saprophyt´ic., adj.
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14. Saprophyte
    • (n.) Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.
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15. saprophyte
    (from the article `angiosperm`) ...(primary producers) that use solar radiation, carbon dioxide, water, and minerals to synthesize organic compounds; oxygen is a by-product of these ... ...chain, a plant-eating animal is eaten by a larger animal. In a parasite chain, a smaller organism consumes part of a larger host and may itself be .....
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16. saprophyte
    (sapro- + Gr. phyton plant) a saprophytic (= whose nutrition involves uptake of dissolved organic material from decaying plant or animal matter) organism.
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17. Saprophyte
    an organism that can obtain nutrients from dead organic material.
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18. saprophyte
    saprophyte, saprophytal 1. A plant living on dead or decaying matter. 2. Any vegetable organism that lives on decayed organic matter. 3. A saprotrophic organism; especially, a fungus or microorganism. 4. An organism, especially a fungus or bacterium, that grows on and derives its nourishment from...
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19. saprophyte
    saprophyte (săp'rufīt") , any plant that depends on dead plant or animal tissue for a source of nutrition and metabolic energy, e.g., most fungi (molds) and a few flowering plants, such as Indian pipe and some orchids. Most saprophytes do not produce chlorophyll and therefore do ...
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20. saprophyte
    Type: Term Pronunciation: sap′rō-fīt Definitions: 1. An organism that grows on dead organic matter, plant or animal. Synonyms: necroparasite See: saprobe
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21. saprophyte
    (Gk: sapros=putrid; phyton=plant) an organism depending on dead organic remains for its food, e.g. mushrooms and many forms of bacteria. The activities of saprophytic bacteria are immensely important, as they make available to living organisms much of the content of the dead matter in an acceptable ...
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