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. From Wordnik.com. [They Are Everywhere Among Us, Their Work Not Yet Done] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Why My Kids Hate Science] Reference
Growing on decayed tree stumps I frequently found a saprophyte. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
Technically a bad fungus would be a parasite and a good fungus would be a saprophyte. From Wordnik.com. [EP039: My Friend is a Lesbian Zombie] Reference
It is a parasite or saprophyte, and entirely destitute of chlorophyll, being pure white throughout. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
Something about proletarian revolution among the saprophyte inhabitants of a floating city made of whale barf. From Wordnik.com. [Squidpawned] Reference
The fungus has a wide host range and can survive as a saprophyte in the soil, which makes it difficult to control. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 25] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Circus of Hells]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911] Reference
The fermentative saprophyte is as absolutely essential to the setting up of destructive rotting or putrescence in a putrescible fluid as the torula is to the setting up of alcoholic fermentation in a saccharine fluid. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference
"You see," he said, "the bacillus is a facultative saprophyte. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Legend]
A saprophyte structure that ingests polluted waste from local industry, and conceptually redefines the lagoon’s future water level, without harming the natural state of the island. From Wordnik.com. [Some Proposals for a Venice Lagoon Park] Reference
A Portobello is a tasty saprophyte fungus. From Wordnik.com. [EP039: My Friend is a Lesbian Zombie] Reference
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