Sentence example with the word 'saprophytic'

saprophytic

accompanying, associated, coadunate, collusive, concomitant, conjoint, cooperative, joint, putrefactive, saprogenous, synchronous, united

Definition adj. obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic material

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As is well known, however, many pathogenic germs at times exist in a saprophytic state, and it is not hard to conceive how a microbe may cease such existence and assume parasitic or pathogenic properties when the surroundings are eminently favorable.   [Please select]

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