Definition of "haustorium" []

• A specialized absorbing structure of a parasitic plant, such as the rootlike outgrowth of the dodder, that obtains food from a host plant. (noun)

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• "He dropped his eyes to the remnant of truleg still encased in the severed haustorium."
• "What Flinx had felt moving slightly beneath the first man's body armor were bunched strands of haustorium."
• "After surviving the pseudo-vexfoot's assault, the haustorium-firing fungus, and the rain drain that had swallowed Clarity, it was almost ironic that he should stumble on a dry, smooth chunk of rock."