saprophytic – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
saprophytic
adj.
pertaining to an organism that feeds on dead or decaying flesh
Saprotrophic nutrition
Saprotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic
extracellular digestion involved in the processing of dead or decayed organic matter. It occurs in saprotrophs or
heterotrophs, and is most often associated with
fungi (for example
Mucor) and soil
bacteria. Saprotrophic microscopic fungi are sometimes called
saprobes; saprotrophic plants or bacterial flora are called
saprophytes ( + , "rotten material" + "plant"). The process is most often facilitated through the
active transport of such materials through
endocytosis within the internal mycelium and its constituent
hyphae.
saprophytic
Adjective
1. obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic material
(pertainym) saprophyte, saprophytic organism
2. (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter
(similar) herbivorous
(classification) plant, flora, plant life
Saprophytic
(a.)
Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
saprophytic
Synonyms and related words:
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
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