saprophyte
noun
any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
saprophytically
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a word derived from
saprophyte.
Example Sentences
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Pyrenomycetes.—This is an extraordinarily large and varied group of forms which mostly live parasitically or saprophytically on vegetable tissue, but a few are parasitic on insect-larvae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
