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Meaning of "zoophagy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ZOOPHAGY

zoophagy  [zəʊˈɒfədʒɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ZOOPHAGY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Zoophagy 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 ZOOPHAGY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of zoophagy in the English dictionary

The definition of zoophagy in the dictionary is the feeding on animals by other animals.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ZOOPHAGY


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

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ZOOPHAGY

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE ZOOPHAGY

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 zoophagy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «zoophagy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ZOOPHAGY

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

Translator English - Chinese

zoophagy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

zoofagia
570 millions of speakers

English

zoophagy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

zoophagy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

zoophagy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

zoophagy
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

zoophagy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

zoophagy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

zoophagy
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Zoophagy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zoophagy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

zoophagy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

zoophagy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Zoophagy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

zoophagy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

zoophagy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्राणीसंग्रहालय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zoophagy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

zoophagy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zoophagy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

zoophagy
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

zoophagy
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

zoophagy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

zoophagy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

zoophagy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

zoophagy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of zoophagy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ZOOPHAGY»

The term «zoophagy» is barely ever used and occupies the 210.901 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of zoophagy
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «zoophagy».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ZOOPHAGY» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ZOOPHAGY»

Discover the use of zoophagy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to zoophagy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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iDrakula
Ask Vlad | Web Search Results http://www.askvlad.rm/eating-small-animals-a eating small animals alive ask vlad next Showing 1-10 of about 15,000,000 on eating small animals alive Eating Disorder Eating Disorder – Zoophagy – Rare eating ...
Bekka Black, 2010
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Curiosities of Natural History, In: Third Series
This eccentric man created a lifestyle that included an entirely new pastime, zoophagy, which owes its formal establishment to him. Buckland was a zoophage: his favorite research was eating various members of the animal kingdom.
Francis T. Buckland, 2008
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Curiosities of Natural History
This eccentric man created a lifestyle that included an entirely new pastime, zoophagy, which owes its formal establishment to him. Buckland was a zoophage: his favorite research was eating various members of the animal kingdom.
Francis T. Buckland, 2013
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Biological and Environmental Control of Disease Vectors
Zoophagy One particular aspect of species-specific behaviour, which has received relatively little attention, is the influence of Zoophagy of the vector, i.e. its preference to feed upon animals, on ITN effectiveness. In principle, the degree of  ...
Mary M. Cameron, Lena M. Lorenz, 2013
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An Evolutionary Basis for Pollination Ecology
It is difficult to accept either phytophagy or zoophagy as the original feeding-habit of the earliest Holometabola. More probable may be fungivory, saprophagy or a combination of both, as this is the most acceptable basis for the development of ...
S. C. Willemstein, 1987
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Biology of the Plant Bugs (Hemiptera: Miridae): Pests, ...
Heteropteran families, especially the Miridae, in which both phytophagy and zoophagy are well developed show what Cobben (1978) referred to as unbalanced feeding types. Kullenberg (1944) considered 25 of 100 mirid species in Sweden ...
‎2001
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The Religious System of China: book II. On the soul and ...
ZOOPHAGY AND ANTHROPOPHAGY. 363 "years" 1. And 'Pao Hung-king declares "that tortoise-soup and turtle- " soup render the lean corpulent, are highly invigorating, and increase " the shen" s. Animals possessed of an extraordinary ...
Jan Jakob Maria Groot, 1901
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The Religious System of China: Its Ancient Forms, Evolution, ...
ZOOPHAGY AND ANTHROPOPHAGY. 863 "years" l. And Tcao Hung-king declares "that tortoise-soup and turtle- " soup render the lean corpulent, are highly invigorating, and increase "the shen"*. Animals possessed of an extraordinary ...
Jan Jakob Maria de Groot, 1972
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, ...
Buckland also inspired his equally eccentric son Frank, who inherited his predilection for zoophagy and actually pioneered some of the more outré dishes the Buckland family ate. Frank had a standing agreement with the London Zoo that he ...
Sam Kean, 2012
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The Best Horror of the Year
Many colleagues poured scorn onhis unorthodox methods,but very fewofthem objected from ananimal welfare point ofview....After hisdisgrace, he continuedto give lectures anddemonstrations onwhat he called zoophagy(the eatingofastill ...
Ellen Datlow, 2010

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ZOOPHAGY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term zoophagy is used in the context of the following news items.
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For These Plants, No Victim Is Too Small
Inge Theisen (2005). Evidence of Zoophagy in a Second Liverwort Species, Pleurozia purpurea, The Bryologist, 108 (2) 212-218. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1639/ ... «Scientific American, Feb 15»
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Insect eating creeps on to Paris menus
Daviron likes to quote from the great French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who drew a distinction between "sarcophagy" and "zoophagy". Societies that ... «BBC News, Nov 13»
3
QI Book of the Dead - exclusive extracts from the brains behind the …
The great passion of Frank Buckland (1826–1880) was zoophagy, the eating of unusual animals. He inherited this from his father, William Buckland, Dean of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 09»

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