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histiophagous

histiophagous adjective: feeding on tissue.

Adjective

histiophagous (not comparable)

  1. Feeding on tissue.
    • The flesh-eating bacterium is histiophagous.

Origin of histiophagous

From histio- (“tissue”) + -phagous + [Term?] (“eating”).

Questions about histiophagous

What does histiophagous mean?
Histiophagous means feeding on tissue.
What part of speech is histiophagous?
Histiophagous is an adjective.

Words near histiophagous in the dictionary

  1. histiocytosis
  2. histioid
  3. histiological
  4. histiology
  5. histioneutrophilic
  6. histiophagous
  7. histiopterid
  8. histiopterids
  9. histiosarcoma
  10. histiosarcomas
  11. histiostigmatid

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