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)
androphagous
The eating of a man (as opposed to a woman); similar to anthropophagus (cannibalism).
anthophagous, anthophagy
1. Feeding on flowers.
2. The eating or consumption of flowers.
anthropophagic
Characterized by or connected with anthropophagy; the consumption of humans; such as, a cannibal.
anthropophagist, anthropophagite
A habitual cannibal or someone who eats human flesh.
anthropophagistic
Referring to anthropophagists or characterized by being eaters of human beings.
anthropophagite
Someone who eats human flesh; a cannibal.
anthropophagous, anthropophagic
1. A reference to those who eat human flesh.
2. Descriptive of eating human beings, being canibalistic.
anthropophagously
In an anthropophagous manner; or relating to the consumption of humans.
anthropophagus (s), anthropophagi (pl)
1. A reference to someone who eats the flesh of other human beings; cannibalism.
2. Being eaters of human flesh.
The word cannibal comes from Spanish canibal, "a savage, cannibal"; from , "brave men". The natives were believed to be anthropophagites. Columbus, seeking evidence that he was in Asia, thought the name meant the natives were subjects of the Great Khan.
Cannibalism also refers to an animal that eats the flesh of other animals of the same species.
anthropophagy, anthropophage
The eating, or the consumption, of humans; cannibalism.
aphagia
1. Abstention from eating.
2. The inability or refusal to eat or swallow.
3. The inability to swallow; failure to eat or swallow because it causes pain.
aphagopraxia
The loss of the ability to swallow.
aphagosis
The inability to eat; not eating.
arachnophagous
Eating spiders.
araneophage, araneophagic, araneophagy
Feeding on, or eating, spiders.
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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