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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Feeding on animal matter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Devouring animals; sarcophagous; carnivorous: opposed to phytophagous. Specifically applied by Blyth, in editing Cuvier, to one of two primary types of placental Mammalia, including man, Quadrumana, Carnivora, and Cetacea; the last constituting the order Isodontia, the first three the order Typodontia.
Wiktionary
- adj. carnivorous
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Feeding on animals.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of animals) carnivorous
Examples
“He is himself zoophagous, and in his wild ravings outside the chapel door of the deserted house he always spoke of”
“I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous”
“My own work, with its manifold arrears, took me all day to clear off; it was dark when I was able to inquire about my zoophagous patient.”
“How he has been making use of the zoophagous patient to effect his entry into friend John's home; for your Vampire, though in all afterwards he can come when and how he will, must at the first make entry only when asked thereto by an inmate.”
“Stay; he is himself zoophagous, and in his wild ravings outside the chapel door of the deserted house he always spoke of "master.”
“I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way.”
“How he has been making use of the zoophagous patient to effect his entry into friend”
“I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous (life-eating) maniac.”
“It was dark when I was able to inquire about my zoophagous patient.”
“He is himself zoophagous, and in his wild ravings outside the chapel door of the deserted house he always spoke of 'master'.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘zoophagous’.
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-phagous, -phage
feeding on a particular food
coprophagous, bacteriophage, zoophage, zoophagous, xylophagous
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Just 'cause I like 'em, Z
zooagglutinin, zymurgy, zouave, zeal, zircon, zydeco, zenith, ziggurat, zoetrope, zany, zounds, zigzag and 108 more...
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GRE_3
abeyance, baleful, balk, candid, decimate, hedonistic, improvident, jaunty, laconic, maelstrom, magnanimous, niggling and 14 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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Dracula
Words from Dracula
caleche, patronymic, saturnine, portmanteau, cudgelling, mattock, embrasure, faugh, disgorged, brool, scuppers, spume and 21 more...
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