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corpophagy

corpophagy is the misspelling of coprophagy.

Meaning of coprophagy

Noun

coprophagy (uncountable)

  1. The act or an instance of eating feces.
    • We use "coprophagy" as the simplest available general term to describe ingestion of the feces, without any implication of cause, circumstances, or the origin or nature of fecal material consumed.1980, G. J. Kenagy, D. F. Hoyt, “Reingestion of Feces in Rodents and Its Daily Rhythmicity”, in Oecologia, volume 44, number 3, page 403
    Synonyms:
    scatophagy

Questions about corpophagy

What is corpophagy the misspelling of?
Corpophagy is the misspelling of coprophagy.

Words near corpophagy in the dictionary

  1. corpocracy
  2. corpocratic
  3. corpographies
  4. corpography
  5. corpohuminite
  6. corpophagy
  7. corpora
  8. corpora allata
  9. corpora arenacea
  10. corpora callosa
  11. corpora cavernosa

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corpophagy (page history and authors); coprophagy (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.

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