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Meaning of "stenophagous" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STENOPHAGOUS

From steno- + -phagous (via Latin from Greek phagos eating).
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF STENOPHAGOUS

stenophagous  [stəˈnɒfəɡəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STENOPHAGOUS

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

WHAT DOES STENOPHAGOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of stenophagous in the English dictionary

The definition of stenophagous in the dictionary is feeding on a single type or limited variety of food.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STENOPHAGOUS


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

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STENOPHAGOUS

stenographic
stenographical
stenographically
stenographist
stenography
stenohaline
stenokous
stenoky
stenopaeic
stenopaic
stenopetalous
stenophyllous
stenosed
stenoses
stenosis
stenotherm
stenothermal
stenotic
stenotopic
stenotropic

WORDS THAT END LIKE STENOPHAGOUS

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

Synonyms and antonyms of stenophagous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «stenophagous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STENOPHAGOUS

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

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

estenófago
570 millions of speakers

English

stenophagous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

stenophagous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

stenophagous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

stenophagous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

stenophagous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

stenophagous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sténophage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Stenophagous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

stenophagous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

stenophagous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

stenophagous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Stenophagous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

stenophagous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

stenophagous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्टेनोफेगस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

stenophagous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

stenophagous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stenophagous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

stenophagous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stenophagous
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

stenophagous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stenophagous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stenophagous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stenophagous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stenophagous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STENOPHAGOUS»

The term «stenophagous» is barely ever used and occupies the 206.538 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STENOPHAGOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «stenophagous» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «stenophagous» 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 stenophagous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STENOPHAGOUS»

Discover the use of stenophagous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stenophagous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Organizational Constraints on the Dynamics of Evolution
what are the neural differences between stenophagous and euryphagous species? Whether euryphagy is the primitive state from which stenophagy has developed [39], or whether euryphagous species emerged from stenophagous ones by ...
John Maynard Smith, G. Vida, 1990
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Encyclopedia of Marine Sciences
Many marine and freshwater species are stenoionic. stenophagous refers to animals with a very narrow food specialization, e.g., the ctenophore Beroe gracilis, feeding exclusively on another ctenophore, Pleu- robrachia pileus. Many species ...
Johanna G. Baretta-Bekker, Egbert K. Duursma, Bouwe R. Kuipers, 1998
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Populus Nigra Network: Report of the Seventh (25-27 October ...
Somewhat higher but comparable numbers of stenophagous species associated with the genus Populus were reported by Southwood (1961) for the United Kingdom and Sweden. In Table 3. Number of species of stenophagous phytophagous ...
Jarkko Koskela, S. M. G. de Vries, Davorin Kajba, 2004
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CRC Dictionary of Agricultural Sciences
stenophagous 609 stimuli narrow range of ecological conditions. See also euroky. stenophagous. pertaining to an organism that subsists on only one or a few kinds of food. stenosis, a narrowing or constriction of a tube, duct, or vessel within ...
Robert Alan Lewis, 2001
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Ecological Impacts of Non-Native Invertebrates and Fungi on ...
In terms of breadth of diet, 195 are stenophagous (feed on a single woody plant genus), 85 are oligophagous (on three or fewer genera) and 139 are polyphagous (on more than three genera) (Fig. 8). Stenophagous and oligophagous species ...
David William Langor, Jon Sweeney, 2009
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Ecology and Behaviour of the Ladybird Beetles (Coccinellidae)
5.2.4 Euryphagous and stenophagous species / Generalist and specialist species In most of 5.2 the discussion is focussed on specific prey types. In this section the focus is on the Figure 5.2 Relationship between prey abundance and ladybird ...
Ivo Hodek, A. Honek, Helmut F. van Emden, 2012
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Biological Control of Weeds in Australia
(leaves and stems) Low attack levels at sites where measured Stenophagous on Cardueae and narrow distribution on slender thistles Stenophagous on Cardueae and low attack level per plant Carduus specialist, narrow distribution and low ...
Jim Cullen, Mic Julien, Rachel McFadyen, 2012
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Probable Evolution and Morphological Variation in South ...
The remaining five species are of Agasicles, which is entirely oriented to the amphibious amaranths (stenophagous). Unlike Agasicles, both Amynothrips and Vogtia have undergone evolutionary change without speciation. Low variability or ...
George Britton Vogt, Judson Ulery McGuire, A. D. Cushman, 1979
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Ecology
The stabilization of the new state depends primarily on whether there is a plant taxon to the chemical profile of which the new state happens to be adapted. Naturally, a newly emerged stenophagous insect genotype is exposed to manifold and ...
‎1988
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The Gyrfalcon
It is probably appropriate to say that Gyrfalcons are stenophagous (i.e. the birds feed on a limited range of similar prey) during the early stages of breeding. However, as spring progresses and new bird species start to arrive at the Gyrfalcon ...
Eugene Potapov, Richard Sale, 2010

REFERENCE
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