Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Feeding on excrement: coprophagous beetles.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Feeding upon dung or filth: applied to various insects, and specifically to the Coprophagi.
Wiktionary
- adj. Feeding on excrement
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.
Examples
“And here I never thought one would be able to associate the word coprophagous with a restaurant—much less a Chinese restaurant.”
“We describe the first case of an obligate predatory dung beetle and contrast its behaviour and morphology with those of its coprophagous sympatric congeners.”
“Besides the guy is probably a secretly coprophagous”
“There is no permanent rabbitiness, no essence of rabbit hanging in the sky, just populations of furry, long-eared, coprophagous, whisker-twitching individuals, showing a statistical distribution of variation in size, shape, colour and proclivities.”
“Ancient coprophagous snails is, of course, a more intriguing interpretation and I hope more unburied feces will be found to clinch the case.”
“She had considered playing a computer prank on them that the boys in San Antone had once played on her—changing the default address on their browser from Yahoo to the SSN, the Scat Sex Network, which would plaster coprophagous images all over their screen when they logged on—but decided against it at the last minute.”
“Like rabbits and all the rodents, capybaras are coprophagous.”
““Suppose my partners recommend that no help be given your whole coprophagous Merseian race.””
“After all, I don't understand what they're complaining about, they're such an accomplished bunch of coprophagous necrophiles.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coprophagous’.
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
czardas, cytometer, cytology, cytheromania, cystoscope, cystolith, cyrenaic, cypseline, cyprinoid, cyphonism, cynophobia, cytogenesis and 1298 more...
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Most Obscure Words
acatalectic, acosmism, acuate, acuminate, adscititious, adytum, akratisma, alieniloquy, allelomorph, allochiria, allodium, alnage and 620 more...
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-phagous, -phage
feeding on a particular food
coprophagous, bacteriophage, zoophage, zoophagous, xylophagous
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vorpal's Words
parabiosis, penumbra, defenestrate, portmanteau, sturm und drang, perspicacious, quixotic, copacetic, obfuscate, inveigle, shadenfreude, cloister and 349 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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words
diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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copro-
of or relating to dung or feces
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Depraved and Insulting English
Vocabulary from Peter Novobatzky's and Ammon Shea's highly entertaining book of words I wish I could use in conversation.
ablutophobic, aboiement, abydocomist, acalculiac, achilous, acokoinonia, acrocephalic, acrotophiliac, acrotomophiliac, ameliotist, apotemnophiliac, monopediomaniac and 349 more...
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selenography's Words
Mostly words I don't know the meanings to, words that have very interesting secondary (other) meanings, and words that I just like and think sound beautiful: like oblique
mellifluous, estrus, proclivity, fata morgana, aphorism, proscenium, versicle, topsyturvy, arch, saturnine, bravura, oblique and 37 more...
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Proficiency Words List
heparin, lymphoid, renal, filtration, accrete, acetic, equilibrate, trypsin, fungi, jubilant, detention, coprophagous and 14 more...
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Odessa's Words
defenestration, decathect, effulgent, taciturn, ataraxia, coprophagous, nyctitropic, pernicious, paradox, anachronism, synesthesia, cacophony and 223 more...
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mec31's Words
tautology, syllogism, heteroskedasticity, cwm, col, bubo, usufruct, kir, rivulet, volition, ductile, coprophagous and 13 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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You Are What You Eat, Part II
adephagous, algophagous, androphagous, anthophagous, anthropophagous, aphidophagous, arachnophagous, bacteriophagous, batrachophagous, biophagous, carpophagous, coprophagous and 47 more...
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http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/coprophagous Dec 14, 2007