Home › Words › S › saprotrophismsaprotrophismsaprotrophism means the condition of being saprotrophic.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, saprotrophism ranks #13,673 of 42,749 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom sapro- + -trophism.nounThe condition of being saprotrophice.g.“Of all the potential levels of interaction between fungi and other organisms, parasitism is perhaps the most difficult to demonstrate and distinguish from saprotrophism in the fossil record.” — 2009, Edith L. Taylor, Thomas N. Taylor, Michael Krings, Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants, page 99:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).