Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga.
- noun A member of the Neerophaga, as a burying-, sexton-, or carrion-beetle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Eating carrion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of the
tribe Necrophaga ofbeetles whoselarvae feed oncarrion .
Etymologies
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See necrophagous.
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