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saprophytic

saprophytic adjective: relating to saprophytes.

Adjective

saprophytic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to saprophytes.

saprophytic meaning in Tamil

saprophytic in Tamil

செத்தைப்பயிர், செத்தைப்பூசண, அழுகல்வளரிக்குரிய

Origin of saprophytic

From saprophyte + -ic.

Words formed from saprophytic

Questions about saprophytic

What does saprophytic mean?
Saprophytic means relating to saprophytes.
What is saprophytic in Tamil?
Saprophytic in Tamil is செத்தைப்பயிர், செத்தைப்பூசண, அழுகல்வளரிக்குரிய. See Saprophytic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is saprophytic?
Saprophytic is an adjective.

Words near saprophytic in the dictionary

  1. saprophiles
  2. saprophilous
  3. saprophytal
  4. saprophyte
  5. saprophytes
  6. saprophytic
  7. saprophytically
  8. saprophytism
  9. saprophytophagous
  10. sapropterin
  11. saprostomous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saprophytic (page history and authors); saprophytic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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