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PRONUNCIATION OF EXOPHAGOUS

exophagous  [ɛkˈsɒfəɡəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXOPHAGOUS

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

WHAT DOES EXOPHAGOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of exophagous in the English dictionary

The definition of exophagous in the dictionary is living on the outside of, and feeding upon, the host. Other definition of exophagous is practising cannibalism outside of the tribe or family.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXOPHAGOUS


anthropophagous
ˌænθrəˈpɒfəɡəs
anthropophagus
ˌænθrəˈpɒfəɡəs
coprophagous
kɒˈprɒfəɡəs
creophagous
krɪˈɒfəɡəs
entomophagous
ˌɛntəˈmɒfəɡəs
esophagus
iːˈsɒfəɡəs
hematophagous
ˌhiːməˈtɒfəɡəs
hylophagous
haɪˈlɒfəɡəs
lithophagous
lɪˈθɒfəɡəs
necrophagous
nəˈkrɒfəɡəs
oesophagus
iːˈsɒfəɡəs
omophagous
əʊˈmɒfəɡəs
ophiophagous
ˌɒfɪˈɒfəɡəs
pantophagous
pænˈtɒfəɡəs
phytophagous
faɪˈtɒfəɡəs
saprophagous
sæˈprɒfəɡəs
sarcophagus
sɑːˈkɒfəɡəs
scatophagous
skəˈtɒfəɡəs
theophagous
θɪˈɒfəɡəs
xylophagous
zaɪˈlɒfəɡəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXOPHAGOUS

exonerative
exonerator
exonic
exonuclease
exonumia
exonumist
exonym
exoparasitic
exopeptidase
exophagy
exophoric
exophthalmia
exophthalmic
exophthalmic goitre
exophthalmos
exophthalmus
exoplanet
exoplasm
exopodite
exopoditic

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXOPHAGOUS

analogous
autophagous
bacteriophagous
carpophagous
endophagous
geophagous
haematophagous
hippophagous
ichthyophagous
mallophagous
meliphagous
melliphagous
monophagous
mycophagous
myrmecophagous
oligophagous
ostreophagous
polyphagous
toxicophagous
xiphopagous
zoophagous

Synonyms and antonyms of exophagous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «exophagous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXOPHAGOUS

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

Translator English - Chinese

exophagous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

exófagos
570 millions of speakers

English

exophagous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

exophagous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

exophagous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

экзофагом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

exophagous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

exophagous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

exophage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Exophagous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

exophagous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

exophagous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

exophagous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Exophagous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

exophagous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தன் இனம் அன்றி மற்ற இனத்தாரைத் தின்கிற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनिष्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

exophagous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

exophagous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

exophagous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

екзофагом
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

exophagous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

exophagous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

exophagous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

exophagous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

exophagous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of exophagous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXOPHAGOUS»

The term «exophagous» is used very little and occupies the 170.416 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXOPHAGOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about exophagous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXOPHAGOUS»

Discover the use of exophagous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to exophagous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Iranian Entomology: An Introduction
Mamassani area. The following technical difficulties were found related to interrupting malaria transmission in the area: 1. Resistance to DDT and dieldrin in Anopheles stephensi List., the main vector. 2. The exophilous and exophagous habits ...
Cyrus Abivardi, 2001
2
A Dictionary of Entomology
EXOPHAGOUS Adj. (Greek, exo- I outside + phagein I to devour + Latin, -osus I with property of.) 1. Pertaining to parasitic animals that feed externally on their hosts. 2. Medical Entomology: Pertaining to a disease vector (female mosquito) that ...
‎2011
3
Fungus-insect Relationships: Perspectives in Ecology and ...
Mining and leaf- rolling species are at the mercy of such deciduousness, falling to the ground with the host leaves. Exophagous species, however, usually withdraw to trunks and stems during leaf fall and are forced to feed on hosts found there ...
Quentin Wheeler, Meredith Blackwell, 1984
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Vol 2: Morphology, Physiology, and Development
The most basal neolepidopteran clade, viz., the Exoporia may be characterized as basically 'exophagous concealed feeders'; ... transitions into new adaptive zones as webbers, rollers, tiers, case makers as well as to exophagous feeding.
Niels Kristensen, 2003
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Evolutionary Paleoecology: The Ecological Context of ...
Nonetheless, these peats lack direct evidence of exophagous micro-arthropods and leaf skeletonizers (i.e., fecal pellet accumulations associated with the edges of leaves). Coprolites in Cordaites leaf mats may derive from millipedes, roaches,  ...
Warren D. Allmon, David J. Bottjer, 2013
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Biology, phylogeny, and classification of Coleoptera: papers ...
Primitive larvae of most Chrysomelidae are exophagous, mining larvae are the most specialized. In some tribes of the Cassidinae larvae are exophagous but with cryptic life, especially in leaf sheaths — it is probably an intermediate stage to ...
James Pakaluk, Stanisław Adam Ślipiński, Roy Albert Crowson, 1995
7
Insect Outbreaks Revisited
So far, sequential radiation has been found in parasitoids of endophagous insects but not in ​parasitoids of exophagous herbivores (Dickey and Medina 2011b). Perhaps parasitoids of endophagous herbivores are more prone to evidence ...
Pedro Barbosa, Deborah Letourneau, Anurag Agrawal, 2012
8
Practical Malariology
The terms exophagous and endophagous refer to a mosquito's habit of taking blood meals outside or inside man-made shelters, respectively. In general, exophilic forms will be found to be exophagous, but A. aquasalis feeds inside as well as ...
Paul Farr Russell, 1963
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IInd Symposium on the Protection of Forest Ecosystems: ...
Parasitoids of exophagous and fungivorous phytophages most frequently caught were subjected to closer analysis /Fig. 4/. To parasitoids of exophagous phytophages belong among others the parasitoids of Lophyrus pini L. as for instance ...
Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego--Akademia Rolnicza w Warszawie. Katedra Ochrony Lasu i Ekologii, 1984
10
Voracious Children: Who Eats Whom in Children's Literature
An exophagous episode occurs in R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island (1858). Ralph, who narrates the story, describes a battle between two groups of “savages .” The victorious tribesmen kindle a fire and bring forward one of their bound ...
Carolyn Daniel, 2006

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