saprobic

adjective2

1. •
   Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a saprobe or saprobes; that feeds on dead or decaying organic matter.

   • Saprobic edible fungi are also collected from the wild but they are best known and most widely valued in their cultivated forms. — 2004
2. •
   That contains dead or decaying organic material (and therefore also saprobes).

   • Each of the polysaprobic, mesosaprobic, and oligosaprobic zones is now divided into one α- and one β-level, of which the former is more saprobic than the latter. — 1969