saprophyte

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and saprophyte

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while saprophyte is any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.

Saprobion is often a misspelling of saprophyte.

Saprobion has no English definition.

As a noun saprophyte is

any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.

Saprophyte is a related term of saprophagic.

As a noun saprophyte

is any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.

As an adjective saprophagic is

eating dead organic matter.

As nouns the difference between saprophyte and viridin

is that saprophyte is any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria while viridin is a furanosteroid antibiotic isolated from the soil saprophyte Gliocladium virens