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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Saprophyte \Sap"ro*phyte\, n. [Gr. sapro`s rotten + fyto`n a
     plant.] (Bot.)
     Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as
     most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as
     the Indian pipe.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  saprophyte
       n : an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a
           fungus or bacterium [syn: {saprophytic organism}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "saprophyte":
     algae, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, climber, conferva,
     confervoid, creeper, diatom, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus,
     fungus, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, ivy,
     kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss,
     mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte,
     phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse,
     red algae, rockweed, rust, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil,
     sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smut, succulent, toadstool, vetch,
     vine, wort, wrack
  
  

















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