Word.ws English Dictionary

bryophagous

bryophagous adjective: feeding on moss.

Adjective

bryophagous (not comparable)

  1. Feeding on moss.

Origin of bryophagous

From bryo- + -phagous or bryophagy + ous.

Questions about bryophagous

What does bryophagous mean?
Bryophagous means feeding on moss.
What part of speech is bryophagous?
Bryophagous is an adjective.

Words near bryophagous in the dictionary

  1. bryonies
  2. bryonin
  3. bryonine
  4. Bryonna
  5. bryony
  6. bryophagous
  7. bryophagy
  8. bryophilin
  9. bryophilins
  10. bryophillin
  11. bryophillins

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bryophagous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bryophagous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bryophagous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.