saprophytic

3 definitions found

saprophytic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Saprophytic \Sap`ro*phyt"ic\, a.
     Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter;
     pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
     [1913 Webster]

saprophytic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  saprophytic
      adj 1: obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic
             material
      2: (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic
         matter

saprophytic - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "saprophytic":
     accompanying, accordant, agreeing, associate, associated,
     at one with, coacting, coactive, coadunate, coincident,
     collaborative, collective, collusive, combined, combining,
     concerted, concomitant, concordant, concurrent, concurring,
     conjoint, consilient, conspiratorial, cooperant, cooperative,
     coordinate, coworking, harmonious, joint, meeting, parasitic,
     putrefacient, putrefactive, rotting, saprobic, saprogenic,
     saprogenous, saprophilous, septic, symbiotic, synchronous,
     synergetic, synergic, synergistic, united, uniting