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Meaning of "exophagy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EXOPHAGY

exophagy  [ɛkˈsɒfədʒɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXOPHAGY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Exophagy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EXOPHAGY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of exophagy in the English dictionary

The definition of exophagy in the dictionary is the practice of cannibalism outside of the tribe or family.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXOPHAGY


anthropophagy
ˌænθrəˈpɒfədʒɪ
autocoprophagy
ˌɔːtəʊkəˈprɒfədʒɪ
autophagy
ɔːˈtɒfədʒɪ
bacteriophagy
bækˌtɪərɪˈɒfədʒɪ
coprophagy
kɒˈprɒfədʒɪ
creophagy
krɪˈɒfədʒɪ
endophagy
ɛnˈdɒfədʒɪ
geophagy
dʒɪˈɒfədʒɪ
hippophagy
hɪˈpɒfədʒɪ
ichthyophagy
ˌɪkθɪˈɒfədʒɪ
monophagy
mɒnˈɒfədʒɪ
mycophagy
maɪˈkɒfədʒɪ
oligophagy
ˌɒlɪˈɡɒfədʒɪ
omophagy
əʊˈmɒfədʒɪ
ostreophagy
ˌɒstrɪˈɒfədʒɪ
pantophagy
pænˈtɒfədʒɪ
phytophagy
faɪˈtɒfədʒɪ
scatophagy
skæˈtɒfədʒɪ
theophagy
θɪˈɒfədʒɪ
xerophagy
zɪəˈrɒfədʒɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXOPHAGY

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXOPHAGY

aerophagy
baggy
biology
cabbagy
cagy
doggy
energy
entomophagy
garbagy
genealogy
gy
Moholy-Nagy
Nagy
orgy
polyphagy
psychology
sagy
stagy
strategy
technology

Synonyms and antonyms of exophagy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «exophagy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXOPHAGY

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

Translator English - Chinese

exophagy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

exophagy
570 millions of speakers

English

exophagy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

exophagy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

exophagy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

exophagy
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

exophagy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

exophagy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

exophagie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Exophagy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

exophagy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

exophagy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

exophagy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Exophagy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

exophagy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தன் இனத்தாரை அன்றி மற்ற இனத்தாரைத் தின்பவன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भितीदायक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

exophagy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

exophagy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

exophagy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

exophagy
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

exophagy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

exophagy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

exophagy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

exophagy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

exophagy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of exophagy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXOPHAGY»

The term «exophagy» is barely ever used and occupies the 200.931 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXOPHAGY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «exophagy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «exophagy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXOPHAGY»

Discover the use of exophagy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to exophagy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Word of Mouth: Food and Fiction After Freud
He asserts that as a cultural form cannibalism persisted for countless generations in two discrete categories: exophagy or aggressive cannibalism and endophagy or affectionate cannibalism. Rarely did the two forms occur within the same ...
Susanne M. Skubal, 2013
2
Voracious Children: Who Eats Whom in Children's Literature
8 In Western anthropological terms, aggressive cannibalism, or eating the enemy , is known as exophagy. William B. Seabrook apparently witnessed this practice during his travels to the French Ivory Coast in the 1930s. The Guere tribe ritually ...
Carolyn Daniel, 2006
3
The Contextual Determinants of Malaria
This behavior should be recognized as chemically induced exophagy. Additionally, when houses are sprayed, paired indoor/outdoor collections of malaria vectors show that the mosquitoes are biting mostly outdoors. If epidemiological data ...
Elizabeth A. Professor Casman, Hadi Professor Dowlatabadi, 2010
4
Latin American Novels of the Conquest: Reinventing the New World
Writing in the first decade of the sixteenth century, Amerigo Vespucci noted the distinction between exophagy and endophagy; referring to the natives of the island of Trinidad, he relates, 'They do not eat one another, but . . . go to neighboring ...
Kimberle S. López, 2002
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Bulletin of the Society for Vector Ecology
EXOPHAGY AND EXOPHILY IN MALARIA VECTORS H. Ribeiroi and J. G. Janzi ABSTRACT: The study of the variables concerning the behaviour of malaria vectors, namely those related to the contact with man and human habitation, is of  ...
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Mosquito Ecology: Field Sampling Methods
In the first year the indoor collection (795) was slightly higher than the outdoor collection (723), but in the second year the outdoor collection (497) was greater than the indoor collection. No consistent pattern of endophagy:exophagy was ...
John B. Silver, 2007
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Global Wetlands: Old World and New
TABLE 1 Biting and resting behavior of the major anopheline vectors in Latin America Species Biting pattern Location of biting Resting behavior Anopheles darlingi crepuscular/midnight exophagy > endophagy exophily > endophily An.
William J. Mitsch, 1994
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Global change and human vulnerability to vector-borne diseases
... for Population and Ecosystem Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Table 1 | Definition of mosquito behavioral choices. Exophagy: is. PHYSIOLOGY published: 12 June 2012 doi: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00199 % *Correspondence: ...
Rubén Bueno-Marí
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Short Textbook of Public Health Medicine for the Tropics
Some species are anthropophilic, others zoophilic (prefer animal blood); some prefer to bite indoors, others outdoors (endophagy, exophagy); some prefer to rest during the day indoors, others outdoors (endophily, exophily). Malaria vectors ...
Adetokunbo O. Lucas, Herbert Michael Gilles, 2003
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Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion
The selective use of certain foods may thus be said to be subject to the laws of exophagy, which determine the permissibility of certain foods under diverse circumstances. There are "male" and "female" foods and food preparations, and these ...
David Hicks, 2010

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXOPHAGY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term exophagy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Autophagic failure promotes the exocytosis and intercellular transfer …
The latest research on unconventional protein secretion has uncovered a novel secretory pathway termed 'exophagy', which involves the ... «Nature.com, May 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Exophagy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/exophagy>. Apr 2024 ».
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