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Saprophyte   Listen
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Saprophyte  n.  (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.






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"Saprophyte" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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. A plant that does not manufacture its own dinner has no need of chlorophyll and leaves, for assimilation of crude food can take place only in those cells which contain the vital green. This substance, universally found in plants that grub ...
— Wild Flowers Worth Knowing • Neltje Blanchan et al



Words linked to "Saprophyte" :   saprophytic organism, being, organism



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