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Saprophytic

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to saprophytes. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter wordnet
  2. 2
    obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic material wordnet

Etymology

From saprophyte + -ic.

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