Meanings
adjectivesaprophagic (not comparable)
- not comparableEating dead organic matter.
“They are the major decomposers,” outdoing even bacteria, worms and maggots in their saprophagic industry, said David J. McLaughlin, a mycologist at the University of Minnesota.
2009 May 26, Natalie Angier, “Fungi, From Killer to Dinner Companion”, in New York Times
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