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The organisms, known as saprophytes, are usually found in tropical areas.
From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2023
Most saprophytes do not directly digest dead matter: instead, they parasitize fungi that digest dead matter, or are mycorrhizal, ultimately obtaining photosynthate from a fungus that derived photosynthate from its host.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
By the Jubilee maintenance facility, he used a series of wooden pallets, sod, and logs to build a structure designed to house "saprophytes."
From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013
Other nematodes are saprophytes, getting by on whatever tasty morsels they can scavenge.
From Scientific American • Feb. 9, 2013
Thus the processes which we know as fermentation and putrefaction are due to the action of saprophytes.
From American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick by Cross, American Red
