(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:51:13

Sap"ro*phyte (?), n. [Gr. rotten + a plant.] Bot.

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

 

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