Crossword-Solution: SAPROPHYTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Saprophytic | a. | Feeding or growing upon decaying animal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SAPROPHYTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| LIVING on decayed organic matter | 1 answer |
| feeding on dead or decaying organic matter | 1 answer |
| obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic material | 1 answer |
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Walk furtively (up to someone)
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Hint 1 meaning
To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise;
as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
Hint 2 anagram
EDLSI
Hint 3 another clue
Move
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Sentences with SAPROPHYTIC (5)
The old party fabrics are no more than dead rotting things, upon which a great tangle of personal jealousies, old grudges, thorny nicknames, prickly memories, family curses, Judas betrayals and sacred pledges, a horrible rubbish thicket, maintains a saprophytic vitality.
Bacteria may further be divided into those which are saprophytic or which find favorable conditions for life outside of the body, and the parasitic.
Many are exclusively parasitic or saprophytic, and many are facultative, both conditions of living being possible.
Thus, such bacteria as tubercle bacilli and the influenza bacillus can be cultivated, but they certainly would not find natural conditions which would make saprophytic growth possible.
Now it is quite customary to treat the fermentative agency in putrefaction as if it were wholly bacterial, and, indeed, the putrefactive group of bacteria are now known as saprophytes, or saprophytic bacteria, as distinct from morphologically similar, but physiologically dissimilar, forms known as parasitic or pathogenic bacteria.