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hematophagia

hematophagia is the alternative form of hematophagy.

Meaning of hematophagy

Noun

hematophagy (uncountable)

  1. The practice, of some animals, of feeding on blood.
    • Most Lower brachyceran taxa also have nectarivorous or related fluid diets..., although a few basal clades have shifted to predominantly hematophagy; particularly the Spaniidae, Anthericidae, Xylophagidae, and certain lineages within the Tabanidae.2005, Conrad C. Labandeira, “Fossil History and Evolutionary Ecology of Diptera and Their Associations with Plants”, in David K. Yeates, Brian M. Wiegmann, editors, The Evolutionary Biology of Flies...
    Synonyms:
    hematophagia

Questions about hematophagia

What is hematophagia the alternative form of?
Hematophagia is the alternative form of hematophagy.

Words near hematophagia in the dictionary

  1. hematopathology
  2. hematopathy
  3. hematoperitoneum
  4. hematophage
  5. hematophages
  6. hematophagia
  7. hematophagic
  8. hematophagous
  9. hematophagy
  10. hematophanite
  11. hematophilia

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