Saprophytic is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SAPROPHYTIC in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• relating to a saprophyte
• Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
• obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic material
• (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter
• obtaining food by absorbing dissolved organic material, especially obtaining nourishment from the products of organic breakdown.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• obtaining food by absorbing dissolved organic material; obtaining nourishment from the products of organic breakdown and decay

Words related to SAPROPHYTIC

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Words that contain SAPROPHYTIC

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How to use SAPROPHYTIC in a sentence

• That these later organisms are saprophytic, although not bacterial, there can be no doubt.
• Bacteria may further be divided into those which are saprophytic or which find favorable conditions for life outside of the body, and the parasitic.
• Many are exclusively parasitic or saprophytic, and many are facultative, both conditions of living being possible.

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