Defn: Any plant growing on dacayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.
SAPROPHYTIC
Sap`ro*phyt"ic, a.
Defn: Feeding or growing upon decaying anomal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.
SAPROPHYTISM
Sap"ro*phyt*ism, n.
Defn: State or fact of being saprophytic.
SAPSAGO Sap"sa*go, n. Etym: [G. schabzieger; schaben to shave, to scrape + zieger a sort of hey.]
Defn: A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot.
SAPSKULL
Sap"skull`, n.
Defn: A saphead. [Low]
SAPUCAIA
Sap`u*ca"ia (; Pg. , n. Etym: [Pg. sapucaya.] (Bot.)