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durophagy

durophagy noun: the eating of hard-shelled foods such as bones or nuts, or prey organisms such as shellfish.

durophagy: the eating of hard-shelled foods such as bones or nuts, or prey organisms such as shellfish
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Noun

durophagy (uncountable)

  1. The eating of hard-shelled foods such as bones or nuts, or prey organisms such as shellfish.
    • Among cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes), the consumption of hard prey (durophagy) is most common in the clade of skates and rays. . . which contain only durophagous taxa . . . Durophagy in batoid fishes takes a variety of forms: diets can involve comparatively thin-shelled crustaceans...2023 Sylvain Marcellini, Melanie Debiais-Thibaud & Frederic Marin (eds) The evolution of biomineralization in metazoans →ISBN DOI 10.3389/978-2-83251-339-2 frontiers Research Topics

Origin of durophagy

From Latin durus (“hard”) + -phagy.

Words formed from durophagy

Questions about durophagy

What does durophagy mean?
Durophagy means the eating of hard-shelled foods such as bones or nuts, or prey organisms such as shellfish.
What part of speech is durophagy?
Durophagy is a noun.

Words near durophagy in the dictionary

  1. durophage
  2. durophageous
  3. durophages
  4. durophagous
  5. durophagously
  6. durophagy
  7. duroplastic
  8. duroplasties
  9. duroplasty
  10. duroquinol
  11. duroquinols

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