| EXOPHAGOUS | • exophagous adj. Exhibiting or relating to exophagy. • EXOPHAGOUS adj. relating to exophagy, cannibalism outside one's own group. |
| GEOPHAGOUS | • geophagous adj. Eating earth. • GEOPHAGOUS adj. earth-eating. |
| GEOPHILOUS | • geophilous adj. Loving the ground: specifically applied to sundry animals, especially the Geophila or land-snails. • geophilous adj. (Botany) Terrestrial; growing or rooting in the ground. • geophilous adj. (Phytogeography) growing on the ground or on decaying vegetable matter: applied by Pound and Clements… |
| GLUCOPHORE | • GLUCOPHORE n. a chemical group responsible for sweetness of taste. |
| HYPOGAEOUS | • HYPOGAEOUS adj. germinating with cotyledons underground, also HYPOGAEAL, HYPOGAEAN, HYPOGEAL, HYPOGEAN, HYPOGEOUS. |
| HYPOGENOUS | • hypogenous adj. (Botany) Produced or growing on the undersurface. • HYPOGENOUS adj. produced or growing on the undersurface, esp. (of fern spores) growing on the undersurface of the leaves. |
| HYPOGYNOUS | • hypogynous adj. (Botany) Of a flower, having a superior ovary, attached directly to the receptacle like other floral parts. • HYPOGYNOUS adj. growing from beneath the ovary; having the other floral parts below the ovary. |
| OESOPHAGUS | • oesophagus n. (Anatomy) The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach. • œsophagus n. (Chiefly British spelling) Obsolete form of oesophagus. • OESOPHAGUS n. that portion of the gut which connects the pharynx to the stomach, also ESOPHAGUS. |
| OMOPHAGOUS | • omophagous adj. Eating raw flesh; using uncooked meat as food. • OMOPHAGOUS adj. eating raw flesh. |
| PHILOLOGUE | • philologue n. A philologist. • PHILOLOGUE n. a person who studies or has knowledge of philology, also PHILOLOGER, PHILOLOGIAN, PHILOLOGIST. |
| PLOUGHBOYS | • ploughboys n. Plural of ploughboy. • PLOUGHBOY n. a boy who drives or guides horses in ploughing, also PLOWBOY. |
| SNOWPLOUGH | • snowplough n. (British spelling) Alternative form of snowplow. • snowplough v. (British spelling) Alternative form of snowplow. • snow␣plough n. (British spelling) Alternative form of snowplow. |
| UPHOORDING | • UPHOORD v. (Shakespeare) to hoard up. |
| UPSHOOTING | • upshooting v. Present participle of upshoot. • UPSHOOT v. to shoot upwards. |
| ZOOPHAGOUS | • zoophagous adj. Carnivorous. • zoöphagous adj. Alternative spelling of zoophagous. • ZOOPHAGOUS adj. feeding on animals. |