Saprophytic

3 definitions found

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

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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

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

  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