Hypertext Webster Gateway: "saprophytic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Saprophytic \Sap`ro*phyt"ic\, a.
Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter;
pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
saprophytic
adj 1: obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic material
2: (of some plants or fungi) nourished on dead or decaying
organic matter
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