Meaning of "myrmecophagous" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF MYRMECOPHAGOUS

myrmecophagous  [ˌmɜːmɪˈkɒfəɡəs]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MYRMECOPHAGOUS

Myrmecophagous is an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MYRMECOPHAGOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Entomophagy

Entomophagy is the consumption of insects as food. The eggs, larvae, pupae and adults of certain insect species have been eaten by man since prehistoric times and continue to be an item of the human nutrition in modern times. While insects are eaten by many animals, the term "entomophagy" is generally used to refer to human consumption of insects; non-human animals that eat insects are known as insectivores. There are also some species of carnivorous plants that derive nutrients from insects. Human insect-eating is common to cultures in most parts of the world, including North, Central and South America; and Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Over 1,000 species of insects are known to be eaten in 80% of the world's nations. The total number of ethnic groups recorded to practice entomophagy is around 3,000. However, in some societies insect-eating is uncommon or even taboo. Today insect eating is rare in the developed world, but insects remain a popular food in many developing regions of Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. There are some companies that are trying to introduce insects into Western diets.

Definition of myrmecophagous in the English dictionary

The definition of myrmecophagous in the dictionary is specialized for feeding on ants. Other definition of myrmecophagous is feeding on ants.

TRANSLATION OF MYRMECOPHAGOUS

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The translations of myrmecophagous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «myrmecophagous» in English.

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• Translator English - Tamil: எறும்புகளைத் தின்று வாழ்வதற்கு ஏற்றவாறு அமைந்துள்ள
• Translator English - Marathi: मायक्रोकोफॅगस
• Translator English - Turkish: myrmecophagous
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MYRMECOPHAGOUS»

Discover the use of myrmecophagous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to myrmecophagous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Myrmecophagous Mammals: Aardvark, Aardwolf, Pangolin, ...

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General Books LLC, Source Wikipedia, Books, LLC, 2010

Articles on Myrmecophagous Mammals, Including: Aardvark, ...

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Hephaestus Books, 2011

Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology

Aardvarks have small eyes and large, erect ears; the latter is unusual in myrmecophagous species. The yellowish brown hide is very tough, sparsely haired, and insensitive to ant and other insect bites. The forefeet have four toes, and the hind ...

‎2007

Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates

This would imply insectivorous or perhaps myrmecophagous ancestry of Pholidota. The trophic diversity within extant Xenarthra and the affinities between armadillos and fossil glyptodonts on the one hand and anteaters and sloths on the ...

Kurt Schwenk, 2000

The Beginning of the Age of Mammals

Storch and Richter (1992) postulated that it may have initially been herbivorous but, lacking teeth, required comminuted vegetable matter, which it obtained from leafcutter ants; only later did it become myrmecophagous. This hypothesis does ...

Kenneth D. Rose, 2009

Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful

Table 4.4 Convergent evolution of myrmecophagous ecological equivalents in animals Convergent ecological role: ANT-EATING ANIMALS (“anteater niche”) Convergent lineages: 1 Thorny devil lizard (Amniota: Sauropsida: Diapsida: ...

George R. McGhee, 2011

Carabid Beetles as Bioindicators: Biogeographical, ...

Zetto Brandmayr T, Pizzolotto R (1994) Siagona europaea Dejean: first results from field collecting, life cycle, and the evidence of a possible myrmecophagous diet (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Siagonini). The Entomologists 113(2): 120—125.

D. Johan Kotze, Thorsten Assmann, Jinze Noordijk, 2011

The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of ...

Any more on this head might be tautological. morui: ant. Gk murmax. myrmeco-, as myrmecology, myrmecophagous. There are seven genera from this stem, as Myrmeleon: antlion. L and E Formica: a genus of ants; also the laminated plastic.

Joseph Twadell Shipley, 2009

The Coevolutionary Process

None of the myrmecophagous mammals appears to be restricted throughout its geographic range to a single prey species. Rather there is a geographic structure to specialization in these interactions, with different populations eating different ...

John N. Thompson, 2009

The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia

Butterflies that are myrmecophagous are are listed. those in which the larvae either feed on the immature stages of ants or are fed by ant Larval attendant ants regurgitations. Species of larval attendant The larvae of many blues (family ...

Michael F. Braby, 2004