phago-, phag-, -phage, -phagi, -phagic, -phagically, -phagia, -phagism, -phagist, -phagic, -phagous, -phagy +
(Greek: eat, eating; to consume, to ingest; relationship to eating or consumption by ingestion or engulfing)
microphagous, microphage, microphagic, microphagy
Feeding on relatively minute particles or on very small prey.
monophagism, monophagia, monophagous, monophagy
1. A desire for only one kind of food.
2. The eating of only one meal a day.
mycetophage, mycetophagous, mycetophagy
The eating of fungi.
mycophagy, mycophagous
The eating of fungi; especially, mushrooms.
Myrmecophaga
A genus of animals; such as, the ant bear.
Myrmecophaga tridactyla
A large tropical American anteater having an elongated narrow snout, a long sticky tongue, three finger-toes, and a large shaggy tail.
myrmecophage, myrmecophagous, myrmecophagy
Feeding on ants or termites.
A myrmecophage, or ant eater, has found a good number of ants to eat.
Myrmecophagidae
Anteaters; family of Neotropical insectivorous mammals (Edentata) containing a single terrestrial, and two mainly arboreal, species; head elongate, oral region tubular; teeth absent, tongue elongate, protrusible and sticky; forelimbs powerful with large claws for breaking open nests of ants and termites.
myrmecophagous, myrmecophage, myrmecophagia, myrmecophagy
Feeding mainly or exclusively on ants or termites.
necrophage, necrophagy
1. To eat or subsist on dead bodies; such as, carrion, by organisms or certain animals.
2. Feeding on dead material; saprophytic.
The term carrion refers to the decaying flesh of a dead body; rotten, filthy, etc.
necrophagia, necrophagous
Feeding on the flesh of dead animals (carrion) or other dead material by certain insects and some animals; saprophytic.
necrophytophage, necrophytophagy
The consumption of dead plant materials
necrophytophagous
Feeding on dead plant material.
nekrophytophagous, nekrophytophage, nekrophytophagy
Feeding on dead plant material.
neuronophagous, neuronophage, neuronophagy
Phagocytosis of nerve cells.
The process by which a cell engulfs particles; such as, bacteria, other microorganisms, aged red blood cells, foreign matter, etc.
The principal phagocytes (cells that can engage in phagocytosis) include the neutrophils and monocytes; both of which refer to types of white blood cells.
Related "eat, eating" word units:
brycho-;
esculent-;
esophago-;
glutto-;
vor-.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "food, nutrition, nourishment":
alimento-;
broma-;
carno-;
cibo-;
esculent-;
sitio-;
tropho-;
Eating Crawling Snacks;
Eating: Carnivorous-Plant "Pets";
Eating: Folivory or Leaf Eaters;
Eating: Omnivorous.
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