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Saprobic

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a saprobe or saprobes; that feeds on dead or decaying organic matter. not-comparable, usually

    "It cannot be said that one saprobe is more saprobic than another, even though one produces ten times as many spores as another in the same habitat or one produces no spores in the polluted habitat but countless numbers of spores in the ivory tower of the pure culture laboratory."

  2. 2
    That contains dead or decaying organic material (and therefore also saprobes). not-comparable, usually

    "1969, Wilhelm Rohde, Crystallization of Eutrophication Concepts in Northern Europe, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), Eutrophication: Causes, Consequences, Correctives, Symposium Proceedings, page 60, Each of the polysaprobic, mesosaprobic, and oligosaprobic zones is now divided into one α- and one β-level, of which the former is more saprobic than the latter."

Adjective
  1. 1
    living in or being an environment rich in organic matter but lacking oxygen wordnet

Etymology

From saprobe + -ic.

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