Usually means: Specialized structure for parasitic nutrient absorption.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. haustorium: Merriam-Webster
  2. haustorium: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. haustorium: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. haustorium: Collins English Dictionary
  5. haustorium: Vocabulary.com
  6. haustorium: Wordnik
  7. haustorium: Wiktionary
  8. haustorium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. haustorium: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. haustorium: Dictionary.com
  11. Haustorium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Haustorium: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. haustorium: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. haustorium: Rhymezone
  15. Haustorium: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. haustorium: FreeDictionary.org
  17. haustorium: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. haustorium: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. haustorium: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. haustorium: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

(Note: See haustoria as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (haustorium)

noun:  A root of a parasitic plant modified to take nourishment from its host.
noun:  A cellular structure, growing into or around another structure to absorb water or nutrients, such as a cotyledon.

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