| sapro- | Sapr- Rotten, putrid, decayed. Origin: G. Sapros (05 Mar 2000) |
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| saprobe | An organism that obtains its food directly from decaying organic material. (09 Oct 1997) |
| saprobic | Pertaining to a saprobe. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saprodontia | Synonym: dental caries. Origin: sapro-+ G. Odous, tooth (05 Mar 2000) |
| saprogen | An organism living on dead organic matter and causing the decay thereof. Origin: sapro-+ G. -gen, producing (05 Mar 2000) |
| saprogenic | Saprogenous Causing or resulting from decay. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saprophagan | <zoology> One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon dacaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle. Origin: Gr. Rotten + to eat: cf. F. Saprophage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saprophagous | <zoology> Feeding on carrion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saprophilous | Thriving on decaying organic matter. Origin: sapro-+ G. Philos, fond (05 Mar 2000) |
| saprophyte | <microbiology> An organism whose nutrition involves uptake of dissolved organic material from decaying plant or animal matter. Origin: Gr. Phyton = plant (18 Nov 1997) |
| saprophytic | Feeding or growing upon decaying anomal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saprozoic | Living in decaying organic matter; especially denoting certain protozoa. Origin: sapro-+ G. Zoikos, relating to animals (05 Mar 2000) |
| saprozoonosis | A zoonosis the agent of which requires both a vertebrate host and a nonanimal (food, soil, plant) reservoir or developmental site for completion of its cycle. Combination terms may be used, such as saprometazoonoses for fluke infections, when metacercariae encyst on plants, or saprocyclozoonoses for tick infestations, whose agents complete part of their life cycles in soil. Origin: sapro-+ G. Zoon, animal, + nosos, disease (05 Mar 2000) |