| CARPOPHAGOUS | • carpophagous adj. Living on fruits; fruit-eating. • CARPOPHAGOUS adj. fruit-eating. |
| COPROPHAGOUS | • coprophagous adj. Feeding on excrement. • COPROPHAGOUS adj. eating dung, also COPROPHAGIC. |
| HIPPOPHAGOUS | • hippophagous adj. Feeding on horseflesh. • HIPPOPHAGOUS adj. eating horseflesh. |
| LITHOPHAGOUS | • lithophagous adj. (Zoology) Eating or swallowing stones or gravel. • lithophagous adj. (Zoology) Eating or destroying stone, like some mollusks, sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. • LITHOPHAGOUS adj. stone-swallowing; rock-boring; eating rock. |
| MACROPHAGOUS | • macrophagous adj. (Zoology) That feeds on relatively large particles or prey. • MACROPHAGOUS adj. of an animal, feeding on relatively large particles of food. |
| MALLOPHAGOUS | • mallophagous adj. Feeding on feathers. • MALLOPHAGOUS adj. relating to the Mallophaga, an order of wingless parasitic insects, bird-lice or biting-lice. |
| MELLIPHAGOUS | • melliphagous adj. Alternative spelling of meliphagous. • MELLIPHAGOUS adj. feeding upon honey, also MELIPHAGOUS. |
| MICROPHAGOUS | • microphagous adj. (Zoology) Feeding on small particles. • MICROPHAGOUS adj. of an animal, feeding on small particles of food. |
| NECROPHAGOUS | • necrophagous adj. That eats dead or decaying animal flesh. • NECROPHAGOUS adj. feeding on the dead. |
| OLIGOPHAGOUS | • oligophagous adj. (Chiefly of insects) that feed on a restricted range of food. • OLIGOPHAGOUS adj. eating only a few specific kinds of food. |
| OPHIOPHAGOUS | • ophiophagous adj. (Zoology) Feeding on snakes. • OPHIOPHAGOUS adj. eating snakes. |
| PANTOPHAGOUS | • pantophagous adj. Eating all kinds of food. • PANTOPHAGOUS adj. eating or requiring a variety of foods. |
| PHYTOPHAGOUS | • phytophagous adj. (Zoology) Feeding on plants, herbivorous. • PHYTOPHAGOUS adj. feeding on plants, also PHYTOPHAGIC. |
| RHIZOPHAGOUS | • rhizophagous adj. Feeding on roots. • RHIZOPHAGOUS adj. feeding on roots. |
| SAPROPHAGOUS | • saprophagous adj. Feeding on dead or decaying organic matter. • SAPROPHAGOUS adj. feeding on decaying material. |
| SARCOPHAGOUS | • sarcophagous adj. (Zoology) Feeding on flesh; carnivorous. • SARCOPHAGOUS adj. feeding on flesh; carnivorous. |
| SCATOPHAGOUS | • scatophagous adj. Synonym of coprophagous: typified by consuming shit or other excrement. • SCATOPHAGOUS adj. habitually feeding on dung, coprophagous. |
| STENOPHAGOUS | • stenophagous adj. (Ecology) Feeding on a limited variety of food. • STENOPHAGOUS adj. of animals, feeding on a single type or limited variety of food. |