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Meaning of "zoophagous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ZOOPHAGOUS

zoophagous  [zəʊˈɒfəɡəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ZOOPHAGOUS

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

WHAT DOES ZOOPHAGOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of zoophagous in the English dictionary

The definition of zoophagous in the dictionary is feeding on animals.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ZOOPHAGOUS


anthropophagous
ˌænθrəˈpɒfəɡəs
anthropophagus
ˌænθrəˈpɒfəɡəs
bacteriophagous
bækˌtɪərɪˈɒfəɡəs
creophagous
krɪˈɒfəɡəs
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

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ZOOPHAGOUS

zoophagan
zoophagy
zoophile
zoophilia
zoophilic
zoophilism
zoophilist
zoophilous
zoophobe
zoophobia
zoophobous
zoophoric
zoophorus
zoophysiologist
zoophysiology
zoophyte
zoophytic
zoophytical
zoophytoid
zoophytological

WORDS THAT END LIKE ZOOPHAGOUS

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 zoophagous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «zoophagous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ZOOPHAGOUS

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

Translator English - Chinese

食肉
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

zoófago
570 millions of speakers

English

zoophagous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

zoophagous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لاحم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

zoophagous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

zoophagous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

zoophagous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

zoophage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Zoophagous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zoophagous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

zoophagous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

zoophagous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Zoophagous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

zoophagous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விலங்குகளை உண்டு வாழ்கிற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

झूफॅगस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zoophagous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

zoophagous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zoophagous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

zoophagous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

zoophagous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δικών του
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

zoophagous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

zoophagous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

zoophagous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of zoophagous

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ZOOPHAGOUS»

The term «zoophagous» is used very little and occupies the 185.081 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ZOOPHAGOUS» OVER TIME

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

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ZOOPHAGOUS»

Discover the use of zoophagous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to zoophagous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
South American and Antarctic Continental Cenozoic Birds: ...
We have compared the zoophagous versus nonzoophagous avian record of 13 fossil localities of South America (four Paleogene and the remaining Miocene or Pliocene in age) presenting the results in summary in Table 8.1. Birds from each  ...
Claudia P. Tambussi, Federico Degrange, 2012
2
The Ecology and Conservation of European Dunes
OCCURRENCE OF SPECIES OF A PHYTOPHAGOUS AND ZOOPHAGOUS INSECT-GROUP OF SHORT AND LONG DISTANT NORTH SEA ISLANDS ( Hemiptera:Heteroptera) BRORING. U. Universitat Oldenburg. FB 7 (Terr. Okologie) ...
Francisco García Novo, Robert M. M. Crawford, Mari Cruz Díaz Barradas, 1997
3
Physiological Aspects of Digestion and Metabolism in ...
Only in the zoophagous forms does the number of families without cecum surpass the number of families with a cecum. This can be correlated with the absence of alloenzymatic digestion in purely zoophagous mammals. The absence of a ...
T. Tsuda, Y. Sasaki, R. Kawashima, 1991
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The Kansas City Review of Science and Industry
Mr. Allinson contends, the first forms of animal life must have nourished themselves upon vegetable matter. Hence the question when and how animals became zoophagous is perfectly legitimate. But at the same time we must recognize that ...
‎1883
5
Arthropod Diversity and Conservation
There were significantly more zoophagous bug species in wildflower areas than in pastures, whereas numbers of zoophagous individuals showed no differences between the habitat types. The reason why we only found differences in species  ...
D. L. Hawksworth, Alan T. Bull, 2007
6
The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, ...
The number of purely zoophagous species which do not admit more or less vegetable matter — seeds, fruits. &c — into their dietary is not large. We may even ask whether among those birds which remain with us throughout the year there are, ...
James Samuelson, William Crookes, 1883
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The Popular Science Monthly
birds were plainly fitted for a predatory life ; and the lowest and earliest forms among mammals are decidedly zoophagous. It may even be permissible to ask if among mammals the purely plant-eating forms hare not been developed from a ...
‎1885
8
Popular Science
birds were plainly fitted for a predatory life ; and the lowest and earliest forma among mammals are decidedly zoophagous. It may even be permissible to ask if among mammals the purely plant-eating forms have not been developed from a ...
9
Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, ...
Hence the question when and how animals became zoophagous is perfectly legitimate. But at the same time we must recognise that among vertebrate animals, and especially among Mammalia, the earliest forms seem to have been  ...
‎1882
10
The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, ...
The number of purely zoophagous species which do not admit more or less vegetable matter — seeds, fruits. &c — into their dietary is not large. We may even ask whether among those birds which remain with us throughout the year there are, ...
‎1883

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ZOOPHAGOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term zoophagous is used in the context of the following news items.
1
For These Plants, No Victim Is Too Small
So, they conclude, we can only call these plants zoophagous and not carnivorous because we are not 100% sure they are actually eating what they catch. «Scientific American, Feb 15»
2
Isabel Allende's 6 favorite books
We all know this macabre Victorian novel loaded with sexual innuendo, suspense, Christian paranoia, blood, mystery, and even a zoophagous madman. «The Week Magazine, Jan 14»
3
Huntington Beach Responds with Reforms for US Open of Surfing …
Zoophagous. Just give a plastic bag to anyone who looks like they might cause trouble. Then the city council will get after them! blake. This is stupid they aren't ... «TheInertia.com, Oct 13»
4
Nonso Anozie Talks Being Black While Playing Renfield In 'Dracula'
Doctor John Seward diagnoses him as a “zoophagous maniac”, or carnivorous mad man. During the course of the novel, he is revealed to be under the ... «Atlanta Black Star, Oct 13»
5
'Dracula Bites'Bloody good comedy premiering at Barter Theatre
is the owner of Morehead Mortuaries and plays Renfield, a zoophagous — that's “life-eating maniac” — patient at the neighboring insane asylum. Stewart Minor ... «Kingsport Times News, Sep 11»
6
Dracula (1897), Bram Stoker - Psychiatrists in 19th-century fiction
Seward, refused by the beautiful Lucy, takes an interest in the special patient Renfield, feeling proud at his novel diagnosis of 'zoophagous maniac'. «British Journal of Psychiatry, Aug 09»

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