Saprophyte

Definition: Saprophyte

Saprophyte

Noun

1. An organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium.

Etymology: Saprophyte \Sap"ro*phyte\, noun. [from Greek expression sapro`s rotten fyto`n plant.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Biology & Biotechnology	A plant organism that is incapable of synthesising its nutrient requirements from purely inorganic sources and feeds on dead organic material, commonly assisting its decay. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	A saprophytic (= whose nutrition involves uptake of dissolved organic material from decaying plant or animal matter) organism. (references)
Mining	An organism living on dead or decaying organic material. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Saprophyte

Synonym: saprophytic organism (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Saprophyte

Specialty definitions using "saprophyte": Bacillus cereus, Bacillus megaterium, Bacillus subtilis. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Saprophyte" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (saprophyte).

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "saprophyte"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		saprofitë. (various references)

Arabic		‏الإعفيين كل متعض نباتي. (various references)

Bulgarian		сапрофит. (various references)

Chinese		腐�"�物. (various references)

Danish		saprofyt (saprophytic bacterium). (various references)

Dutch		saprofyt. (various references)

Finnish		saprofyytti (saprophytes, saprophytic plants), mädänsyöjä (saprophytes, saprophytic plants). (various references)

French		saprophyte. (various references)

German		Saprophyt. (various references)

Greek		σαπρόφυτο. (various references)

Italian		saprofita. (various references)

Korean		부생� . (various references)

Pig Latin		aprophytesay.(various references)

Portuguese		saprófita. (various references)

Russian		сапрофит. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		saprofit. (various references)

Spanish		saprofito. (various references)

Swedish		saprofyt. (various references)

Thai		สิ่งมีชีวิตที่กินของเน่าเปื่อย. (various references)

Turkish		saprofit, çürükçül. (various references)

Ukranian		сапрофіт. (various references)

Vietnamese		thực vật hoại sinh. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "saprophyte": saprophytes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Saprophyte" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sarcophytum, seprophyte. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "saprophyte" (pronounced 'Sap"ro*phyte'): Aerophyte, Anophyte, Carpophyte, Dermatophyte, Dermophyte, Entophyte, Eophyte, Epiphyte, gametophyte, halophyte, hydrophyte, Hysterophyte, Keratophyte, lithophyte, Microphyte, Myrmecophyte, Neophyte, Oophyte, Protophyte, Schizophyte, spermatophyte, Spermophyte, sporophyte, Zoophyte, Zymophyte, Zyophyte. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-o-p-p-r-s-t-y"
	-2 letters: phorates, prophase, prophesy, prophets, trappose.
	-3 letters: apposer, atrophy, earshot, esparto, hoppers, perhaps, phorate, pothers, prepays, prophet, proteas, pyropes, seaport, shopper, stopper, strophe, stroppy, tappers, teapoys, teashop, tephras, therapy, thorpes, threaps, toppers, typhose, yappers.
	-4 letters: ahorse, appose, ashore, earths, earthy, ephors, estray, haters, hayers, hearts, hearty, hoarse, hopers, hopper, horsey, horste, oaters, operas, orates, osprey, others, oyster, papers, papery, pareos, paster, pastor, pastry, paters, pathos, payers, payors, pharos, phrase, poetry, popery, posher, poster, potash, pother, prates, prepay, presto, protea, pyrope, raphes, repast, repays, repots, reshot, respot, sapote, sapper, seraph, shaper, sharpy, sherpa, shoppe, shorty, soaper, spathe, sphery, sporty, stayer, stoper, storey, sypher, tapers, tapper, teapoy, tephra, tepoys, teraph, theory, thorpe, thorps, threap, throes, thyrse, topers, tophes, topper, torahs, toyers, trapes, trashy, tropes, trophy, yapper, yarest.
	-5 letters: apers, apery, aport, apres, apter, arose, artsy, asper, aster, atopy, earth, ephas, ephor, estop, ethos, eyras, haets, happy, hares, harps, harpy, harts, haste, hasty, hater, hates, hayer, heaps, hears, heart, heats, heros, hoars, hoary, hoers, hoper, hopes, hoppy, horas, horse, horst, horsy, hosta, hoyas, hyper, hypes, hypos, oater, oaths, opahs, opera, orate, other, oyers, paper, pareo, pares, parse, parts, party, paseo, paste, pasty, pater, pates, paths, patsy, payer, payor, pears, peart, peats, peaty, pepos, perps, pesto, pesty, phase, phots, poesy, poets, popes, popsy, pores, ports, poser, potsy, praos, prase, prate, prats, prays, preps, presa, prest, preys, proas, props, prose, prost, prosy, psoae, pyres, rapes, raphe, raspy, rates, rathe, ratos, reaps, repay, repos, repot, repps, resay, rheas, rhyta, roast, ropes, ropey, roset, rotas, rotes, ryots, sapor, sappy, satyr, sayer, sepoy, septa, shape, share, sharp, shear, shoat, shoer, shore, short, shote, shyer, soapy, sophy, soppy, spare, spate, spear, spore, sport, sprat, spray, staph, stare, stoae, stope, store, story, strap, stray, strep, strop, stroy, tahrs, taper, tapes, tares, taros, tarps, tears, teary, tepas, tepoy, thorp, those, throe, toeas, toper, topes, tophe, tophs, torah, toras, tores, torse, toyer, traps, trash, trays, treys, trope, troys, tyers, types, typos, typps, tyres, tyros, years, yeast, yores.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-o-p-p-r-s-t-y"
	+1 letter: saprophytes.
	+2 letters: tryptophanes, typographers, typographies.
	+3 letters: amphiprostyle, phanerophytes, phosphorylate, phreatophytes, physiotherapy, psychotherapy, pyrophosphate, spectrography, spermatophyte.
	+4 letters: amphiprostyles, blepharoplasty, cryptographers, cryptographies, hypermetropias, hypnotherapies, hypnotherapist, phosphorylated, phosphorylates, phytoplankters, plethysmograph, pyrophosphates, spermatophytes, spermatophytic.
	+5 letters: cyproheptadines, dephosphorylate, hypnotherapists, phosphorylative, physiotherapies, physiotherapist, plethysmographs, plethysmography, psychotherapies, psychotherapist.
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