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saprophagous, saprophage, saprophagy, saprophagic
1. Feeding or living on decaying material or on decomposing matter.
2. Subsisting on decaying organic matter, saprotrophic.
3. Feeding on dead or decaying organic matter; biophagous.
This entry is located in the following units: phago-, phag-, -phage, -phagi, -phagic, -phagically, -phagia, -phagism, -phagist, -phagic, -phagous, -phagy (page 16) sapro-, sapr-, sap- + (page 3)