Saprophytic

Word SAPROPHYTIC
Character 11
Hyphenation sap ro phyt ic
Pronunciations N/A

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A plant, fungus, or microorganism that lives on dead or decaying organic matter. Urban Dictionary

Disgustingly loose small homeless child living on dead organic matter Urban Dictionary

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The word "saprophytic" in example sentences

Bacteria may be conveniently grouped under two heads: those that live upon dead organic matter, known as the saprophytic forms, and those that are found in living plants or animals, the true parasites. ❋ Rennie Wilbur Doane (N/A)

It is 'saprophytic', which means feeding on decaying organic matter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"This is the legacy Benazir has left behind for Pakistan," her niece writes -- a "saprophytic culture" in which Zardari is the organism that lives off the corpses. ❋ Thomas W. Lippman (2010)

 You could say my writing exhibits saprophytic (unless you are a mycologist I suggest you look that word up) tendencies, in that my poems feed off of the already dead and rotting carcasses of the published endeavors of others. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rice is predominant, but weeds, plankton, and saprophytic and photosynthetic bacteria compete with the rice plants for nutrients and diminish the environment. ❋ Unknown (1995)

However, weeds, plankton, and saprophytic and photosynthetic bacteria compete with rice for nutrients. ❋ Unknown (1995)

He said nothing; only took me by the elbow and led me from the wood, leaving the dead man behind, clothed in the saprophytic hues of war and sacrifice. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)

The saprophytic bacteria are the bacteria of decay, putrefaction, and fermentation. ❋ Kenelm Winslow (N/A)

A number of the orchids are saprophytic, growing in soil rich in decaying vegetable matter, and these forms are often nearly or quite destitute of chlorophyll, being brownish or yellowish in color, and with rudimentary leaves. ❋ Douglas Houghton Campbell (N/A)

The ground bacteria are divided into two groups -- saprophytic and pathogenic. ❋ Kenelm Winslow (N/A)

Sewer air is a mixture of gases, the principal gases being carbonic acid; marsh gas; compounds of hydrogen and carbon; carbonate and sulphides of ammonium; ammonia; sulphureted hydrogen; carbonic oxide, volatile fetid matter; organic putrefactive matter, and may also contain some bacteria, saprophytic or pathogenic. ❋ Kenelm Winslow (N/A)

This flocky condition is caused by one or more saprophytic and parasitic fungi of lowly origin, whose various parts are reduced to mere threads, simple or branched, and divided into tubular cells at intervals, or else they are long, continuous microscopic tubes without any partitions, except at those occasional points where a branch, destined to produce spores, is given off. ❋ William Falconer (N/A)

As a rule, the pabulum in which the saprophytic organisms are provided and ❋ Various (N/A)

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)

It is true that in some three or four instances of this saprophytic destruction of organic tissues, I have observed that, after the strong bacterial investment, there has arisen, not the two forms just named, nor either of them, but one or other of the striking forms now called ❋ Various (N/A)

Let it be remembered that the aim of nature in this fermentative action is not the partial splitting of certain organic compounds, and their reconstruction in simpler conditions, but the ultimate setting free, by saprophytic action, of the elements locked up in great masses of organic tissue -- the sending back into nature of the only material of which future organic structures are to be composed. ❋ Various (N/A)

That these later organisms are saprophytic, although not bacterial, there can be no doubt. ❋ Various (N/A)

''there are [lots] of saprophytes here'' ❋ Fonction (2016)

Oh my [godness], there's an abhorrently lax saprophytic waif [in the ditch] over there! Somebody call [911]! ❋ Courtney Mc. (2007)

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