Definition of Saprophyte. Meaning of Saprophyte. Synonyms of Saprophyte

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Definition of Saprophyte

Saprophyte
Saprophyte Sap"ro*phyte, n. [Gr. sapro`s rotten + fyto`n a plant.] (Bot.) Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.

Meaning of Saprophyte from wikipedia

- sometimes called saprobes. Saprotrophic plants or bacterial flora are called saprophytes (sapro- 'rotten material' + -phyte 'plant'), although it is now believed[citation...
- Look up saprophyte in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Saprophyte may refer to: Saprotrophs; organisms, particularly fungi, which obtain nutrients directly...
- only a few small outdoor sites where log cultivation is practiced. As a saprophyte that occurs on dead wood, H. erinaceus requires adequate substrate factors...
- The honey fungus, Armillaria mellea, is a parasite of trees, and a saprophyte feeding on the trees it has killed....
- wood is called sapro-xylophagy and those animals, sapro-xylophagous. Saprophyte (-phyte meaning "plant") is a botanical term that is no longer in po****r...
- beneficial commensals, which grow on the skin and mucous membranes, and saprophytes, which grow mainly in the soil and in decaying matter. The blood and...
- made up of tubelike pores rather than gills. Laetiporus sulphureus is a saprophyte and occasionally a weak parasite, causing brown cubical rot in the heartwood...
- known as myco-heterotrophs, but were formerly (incorrectly) described as saprophytes as it was believed they gained their nutrition by breaking down organic...
- common species found in Europe and North America, where it grows as a saprophyte in meadows, roadsides, hedgerows, gardens, and woodchip mulch. S. caerulea...
- colonizes living plants as an endophyte, digests material in soil as a saprophyte and is also known as a parasite of other fungi and of nematodes. It produces...