Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The habit of feeding on plants; a phytophagous regimen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The eating of plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The eating of
plants .
Etymologies
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From phyto- (plant) and the suffix -phagy (to feed on)
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Examples
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The man who uses my Roget to find a synonym let us say for thanking for a ` meal 'will come up with such grotesquely inappropriate variants as: manducation, scoff, phytophagy, refection, and spread.
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