Crossword-Solution: SAPROPHYTE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Saprophyte | n. | Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “SAPROPHYTE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Microorganism that grows on decaying matter | 1 answer |
| VEGETABLE organism living on decayed organic matter | 1 answer |
| a fungus or bacterium that feeds upon dead and decaying organic matter | 1 answer |
| vegetable organism | 1 answer |
| parasitic fungus | 10 answers |
| AN ORGANISM THAT FEEDS ON DEAD ORGANIC MATTER ESPECIALLY A FUNGUS OR BACTERIUM | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with SAPROPHYTE (5)
Petty larceny, no greater than the foxglove's at first, then greater and greater thefts, finally lead to ruin, until the pine-sap parasite either sucks its food from the roots of the trees under which it takes up its abode, or absorbs, like a ghoulish saprophyte, the products of vegetable decay.
The fermentative saprophyte is as absolutely essential to the setting up of destructive rotting or putrescence in a putrescible fluid as the torula is to the setting up of alcoholic fermentation in a saccharine fluid.
Growing on decayed tree stumps I frequently found a saprophyte (_hymenophallus_), much larger than its English representative, indeed a monster in comparison, and possessing a vile and most odious smell, yet attractive to certain depraved insects.
One is that it was imported from the Orient, another, that it is a saprophyte, a fungus which has lived normally upon dead organic matter, but which has taken on the parasitic form, which develops on living organisms.
Defn: Feeding or growing upon decaying anomal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.