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n. - A rootlike attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host.

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Usage examples (7)
  • What remained of the truieg fell aside, still encased in graying haustorium.
  • He dropped his eyes to the remnant of truleg still encased in the severed haustorium.
  • What Flinx had felt moving slightly beneath the first man's body armor were bunched strands of haustorium.
  • Before that happened, Flinx promised himself, they would have found their way to the vast common storage room beneath the port and worked their way up to join its stalwart...
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