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hypersaprobic

hypersaprobic adjective: that develops in the decaying fruiting bodies of other fungi.

Adjective

hypersaprobic (not comparable)

  1. That develops in the decaying fruiting bodies of other fungi
    • Although the majority of calosphaeriaceous fungi are saprobic or hypersaprobic found in company with old stromata and ascomata of other ascomycetes on woody plants, recently some species have been isolated from wood of fruit trees showing canker symptoms, viz.2015 December 24, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Calosphaeriales and Togniniales Using Five Genes and Predicted RNA Secondary Structures of ITS, and Flabellascus tenuirostris gen. et sp. nov.”...

Origin of hypersaprobic

From hyper- + saprobic.

Questions about hypersaprobic

What does hypersaprobic mean?
Hypersaprobic means that develops in the decaying fruiting bodies of other fungi.
What part of speech is hypersaprobic?
Hypersaprobic is an adjective.

Words near hypersaprobic in the dictionary

  1. hypersalivated
  2. hypersalivates
  3. hypersalivating
  4. hypersalivation
  5. hypersalivations
  6. hypersaprobic
  7. hypersarcoma
  8. hypersarcoses
  9. hypersarcosinaemia
  10. hypersarcosis
  11. hypersatellite

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