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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CREOPHAGOUS

From Greek kreophagos, from kreas flesh + -phagein to consume.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CREOPHAGOUS

creophagous  [krɪˈɒfəɡəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CREOPHAGOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Creophagous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CREOPHAGOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of creophagous in the English dictionary

The definition of creophagous in the dictionary is flesh-eating or carnivorous.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CREOPHAGOUS


anthropophagous
ˌænθrəˈpɒfəɡəs
anthropophagus
ˌænθrəˈpɒfəɡəs
bacteriophagous
bækˌtɪərɪˈɒfəɡəs
entomophagous
ˌɛntəˈmɒfəɡəs
esophagus
iːˈsɒfəɡəs
geophagous
dʒɪˈɒfəɡəs
hematophagous
ˌhiːməˈtɒfəɡəs
ichthyophagous
ˌɪkθɪˈɒfəɡəs
lithophagous
lɪˈθɒfəɡəs
necrophagous
nəˈkrɒfəɡəs
oesophagus
iːˈsɒfəɡəs
omophagous
əʊˈmɒfəɡəs
ophiophagous
ˌɒfɪˈɒfəɡəs
ostreophagous
ˌɒstrɪˈɒfəɡəs
pantophagous
pænˈtɒfəɡəs
phytophagous
faɪˈtɒfəɡəs
sarcophagus
sɑːˈkɒfəɡəs
scatophagous
skəˈtɒfəɡəs
theophagous
θɪˈɒfəɡəs
zoophagous
zəʊˈɒfəɡəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CREOPHAGOUS

creodont
creole
Creole State
creolian
creolisation
creolise
creolised
creolist
creolization
creolized
Creon
creophagy
creosol
creosote
creosote bush
creosotic
crepance
crepe
crepe bandage
crepe de Chine

WORDS THAT END LIKE CREOPHAGOUS

analogous
autophagous
carpophagous
endophagous
exophagous
haematophagous
hippophagous
hylophagous
mallophagous
meliphagous
melliphagous
microphagous
monophagous
mycophagous
myrmecophagous
oligophagous
polyphagous
saprophagous
toxicophagous
xiphopagous
xylophagous

Synonyms and antonyms of creophagous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «creophagous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CREOPHAGOUS

Find out the translation of creophagous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of creophagous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «creophagous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

creophagous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

creophagous
570 millions of speakers

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creophagous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

creophagous
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

creophagous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

creophagous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

creophagous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

creophagous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

creophagous
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Creophagous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

creophagous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

creophagous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

creophagous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Creophagous
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

creophagous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

creophagous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्रिफॉजस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

creophagous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

creophagous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

creophagous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

creophagous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

creophagous
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

creophagous
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

creophagous
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

creophagous
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

creophagous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of creophagous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CREOPHAGOUS»

The term «creophagous» is used very little and occupies the 164.002 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about creophagous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CREOPHAGOUS»

Discover the use of creophagous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to creophagous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal ... Edinburgh, Constable ...
The families essentially and solely creophagous are the Carabidae and Hydrocanthares. Four others, the Brachelytree, Teredyles, Clavicornes, and Palpicornes contain a mixture of carnivorous and phytophagous species, probably about the ...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View ...
... a creophagous and saprophagous nature, gradually diminish in relative numbers from the poles to the equator; but it remains to be seen whether they increase in the same ratio when viewed separately. This will appear from the following ...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View ...
The families essentially and solely creophagous are the Carabidae and Hydrocanthares. Four others, the Brachely- tres, Teredyles, Clavicornes, and Palpicornes contain a mixture of carnivorous and phytophagous species, probably about the ...
Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, 1839
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Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
The families essentially and solely creophagous are the Carabidae and Hydrocanthares. Four others, the Brachelytres, Teredyles, Clavicornes, and Palpicornes contain a mixture of carnivorous and phytophagous species, probably about the ...
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The Edinburgh new philosophical journal
The families essentially and solely creophagous are the Carabidae and Hydrocanthares. Four others, the Brachelytres, Teredyles, Clavicornes, and Palpicornes contain a mixture of carnivorous and phytophagous species, probably about the ...
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The Westminster Review
The dominant parties in the Church of England expected perhaps,- or hoped at one time, the critical theologians in this country to make an attack upon the ecclesiastical institutions as such. Domineering hierarchs and creophagous priests, ...
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Ethnic Negotiations: The Function of Race and Ethnicity in ...
Strabo, Geogr., 16.4.9 (Jones, LCL) notes that the "Creophagous" men “have their sexual gland mutilated” (Kolto fioi rag Balttivoug) and their women practice excision “in the Jewish fashion” (al yvvaikeg 'lou5ot'ixdlg éktstunuévou); he later  ...
Eric D. Barreto, 2010
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The Foreign Quarterly Review
The dominant parties in the Church of England expected perhaps, or hoped at one time, the critical theologians in this country to make an attack upon the ecclesiastical institutions as such. Domineering hierarchs and creophagous priests, ...
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Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Ex: creophagy, adj creophagous, flesheating. Cf: creos(o)-: c/f of creosote, as, in creosol, which= creos(o)-+-ol, oil. The 2nd elementcomes from Gr sdzein (s .rdz-), to preserve; for the 1st, see prec. -crete, as in calcrete, a type of limestone, ...
Eric Partridge, 2006
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A Computational Theory of Writing Systems
... ,kDrma<0>'fi<y>tik[+gk] creophagous kn<e>'ofagos[+gk] kri'ofa<a>gaS[+gk] creophagy kn<e>'ofagi[+gk] kri'of9<a>ji[+gk] creosote 'kn<e>o,sot 'kria<0>,sout creosotic ,kn<e>o's6tik ,kria<0>'sotik diaphonic .difcfonikj+gk] ,daia<a>fonik[+gk]  ...
Richard Sproat, 2000

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Creophagous [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/creophagous>. May 2024 ».
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