Saprophytes

Word SAPROPHYTES
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Definitions and meanings of "Saprophytes"

What do we mean by saprophytes?

Any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria

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The word "saprophytes" in example sentences

Now it is quite customary to treat the fermentative agency in putrefaction as if it were wholly bacterial, and, indeed, the putrefactive group of bacteria are now known as saprophytes, or saprophytic bacteria, as distinct from morphologically similar, but physiologically dissimilar, forms known as parasitic or pathogenic bacteria. ❋ Various (N/A)

The vast majority of bacteria, on the other hand, which are ordinarily termed saprophytes, are _saprogenic_, _i. e. ❋ Various (N/A)

They extract nutrients from decaying vegetation, which makes them saprophytes. ❋ Will (2009)

Some attack his body, his crops, and his domesticated animals, as well as all forms of wild life; some destroy his clothing and his habitations, and assail virtually everything else that civilized man has come to depend upon in his daily life, - these are the injurious microbes, comprising both saprophytes and parasites. ❋ Unknown (1953)

You can't get away from soil saprophytes no matter how clean you are. ❋ Unknown (1951)

_Basidiomycetes_ are for the most part saprophytes, living in decaying vegetable matter, but a few are true parasites upon trees and others of the flowering plants. ❋ Douglas Houghton Campbell (N/A)

Unlike the algæ, however, they are entirely destitute of chlorophyll, and in consequence are dependent upon organic matter for food, some being parasites (growing upon living organisms), others saprophytes (feeding on dead matter). ❋ Douglas Houghton Campbell (N/A)

Certain highly parasitic bacteria (which grow with difficulty upon the artificial media of the laboratory) can only be isolated with considerable difficulty from associated saprophytic bacteria when cultural methods alone are employed; but if the mixture of parasite and saprophytes is injected into an animal susceptible to the action of the former, the pathogenic organism can readily be isolated from the tissues of the infected animal. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

_Metatrophic_, requiring organic food (e. g., saprophytes and facultative parasites); ❋ Unknown (N/A)

But inoculate some of the sputum under the skin of a mouse and three or four days later the pneumococcus will have entered the blood stream (leaving the saprophytes at the seat of inoculation) and killed the animal. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

I have said that there can be no question whatever that _Bacterium termo_ is the pioneer of saprophytes. ❋ Various (N/A)

Similarly we are unable to divide Schizomycetes sharply into parasites and saprophytes, since it is well proved that a number of species -- facultative parasites -- can become one or the other according to circumstances. ❋ Various (N/A)

Unless the examination is to be commenced at once, the ice-box must be employed, otherwise water bacteria and other saprophytes will probably multiply at the expense of the microbes indicative of pollution, and so increase the difficulties of the investigation. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The pneumococcus for example occurs in the sputum of patients suffering from acute lobar pneumonia, but usually in association with various saprophytes derived from the mouth and pharynx. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The most common of these are such saprophytes as _pterospora andromedea_, _allotropa virgata_, the so-called barber's pole, and the Indian pipe. ❋ John H. Williams (N/A)

Fischer has proposed that the old division into saprophytes and parasites should be replaced by one which takes into account other peculiarities in the mode of nutrition of bacteria. ❋ Various (N/A)

The optimum medium for the growth of the pneumococcus, blood agar, is also an excellent pabulum for the saprophytes of the mouth, and plate cultures are rapidly overgrown by them to the destruction of the more delicate pneumococcus. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Schizomycetes are ubiquitous as saprophytes in still ponds and ditches, in running streams and rivers, and in the sea, and especially in drains, bogs, refuse heaps, and in the soil, and wherever organic infusions are allowed to stand for a short time. ❋ Various (N/A)

The analysis of a plant-community usually reveals one or more of the kinds of symbiosis as illustrated by parasites, saprophytes, epiphytes, and the like. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)

Such is obviously the relationship between trees and many plants growing on the ground of high forest, such as mosses, fungi, and other saprophytes, ferns, Oxalis Acetosella, and their associates. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)

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