saprophyte

IPA: sˈæprʌfaɪt

Examples of "saprophyte" in Sentences

Growing on decayed tree stumps I frequently found a saprophyte
Technically a bad fungus would be a parasite and a good fungus would be a saprophyte.
It is a parasite or saprophyte, and entirely destitute of chlorophyll, being pure white throughout.
Something about proletarian revolution among the saprophyte inhabitants of a floating city made of whale barf.
The fungus has a wide host range and can survive as a saprophyte in the soil, which makes it difficult to control.
Reminded me very much of Pier’s Anthony’s discourse on fungi in I think Omnivore, where I saw the word saprophyte for the first time.
Ganoderma lucidum, starts as a saprophyte on nearby decaying stumps and then becomes a parasite on living trees by entering through wounds.
In it sprouted last year's saprophyte seeds, salt and alcohol in their tissues to prevent freezing, and covered the rocks with ocherous and purple patches.
Her education, week after week, consisted of mindless memorization of big words like "batholith" and "saprophyte" - words that an average Ph.D. scientist wouldn't know.
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.