saprophyte

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sap=ro=phyte

CIDE DICTIONARY

saprophyte, n. [Gr. sapro`s rotten + fyto`n a plant.].

 Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

saprophyte, n. any plant or micro-organism living on dead or decayed organic matter.

Derivative

saprophytic adj.

THESAURUS

saprophyte

algae, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, climber, conferva, confervoid, creeper, diatom, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, ivy, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smut, succulent, toadstool, vetch, vine, wort, wrack