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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Living or growing on excrement, as certain fungi.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Growing upon dung: said of many fungi.
- Fond of dung, as an insect; coprophagous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Living in, or growing on
excrement
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That the price of a bye-election (as opposed to its value) was uppermost in this coprophilous gastropod tells you all you need to know about the mindset of your average member of The Ovine & The Bovine.
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That the price of a bye-election (as opposed to its value) was uppermost in this coprophilous gastropod tells you all you need to know about the mindset of your average member of The Ovine & The Bovine.
Archive 2008-06-08 2008
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According to a report in New Scientist, the images show in detail how microscopic dung-loving, or coprophilous, fungi use a squirt-gun action to propel their spores.
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Microscopic coprophilous (dung-loving) fungi help make our planet habitable by degrading the billions of tons of faeces produced by herbivores.
MicrobiologyBytes 2008
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