Jump to content

saprophagic

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]

Adjective

[edit]

saprophagic (not comparable)

  1. Eating dead organic matter.
    • 2009 May 26, Natalie Angier, “Fungi, From Killer to Dinner Companion”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      “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.
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=saprophagic&oldid=82054327"