saprophytes in English

noun
1
a plant, fungus, or microorganism that lives on dead or decaying organic matter.
Unlike more advanced plants, fungi lack chlorophyll and so can only grow as saprophytes (from dead plants or animals); or as parasites (on living plants); or in a mycorrhizal relationship (symbiosis between fungi and the roots of trees).

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1. Included were saprophytes in dead gall tissues, mycoparasites on rust aeciospores, and secondary fungus parasites of rusted tissues.

2. Holonyms ("Botulinus" is a member of): genus Clostridium (anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes; nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines

3. Most Ascomycetes live as saprophytes in soil, on dead plant tissues, on substrates of organic origin (manure, skin, hair), in food products, and in fermenting liquids

4. Agglutination tests with the crude and purified preparations from each legume showed strong and consistent agglutination with only pseudomonad saprophytes, P. putida, P. fluorescens, and P. aeruginosa.

5. Bacillus definition is - any of a genus (Bacillus) of rod-shaped gram-positive usually aerobic bacteria producing endospores and including many saprophytes and some parasites (such as B

6. Botulinus, Clostridium botulinum eubacteria , eubacterium , true bacteria - a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella genus Clostridium - anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes; nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines, and dung