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onychophagia

onychophagia noun: nail biting.

Noun

onychophagia (uncountable)

  1. Nail biting.

onychophagia meaning in Tamil

onychophagia in Tamil

நகம் கடித்தல் நகம் உண்ணல்

Origin of onychophagia

From onycho- + -phagia.

Questions about onychophagia

What does onychophagia mean?
Onychophagia means nail biting.
What is onychophagia in Tamil?
Onychophagia in Tamil is நகம் கடித்தல் நகம் உண்ணல். See Onychophagia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is onychophagia?
Onychophagia is a noun.

Words near onychophagia in the dictionary

  1. onychoosteodysplasia
  2. onychopathic
  3. onychopathies
  4. onychopathology
  5. onychopathy
  6. onychophagia
  7. onychophagist
  8. onychophagists
  9. onychophagy
  10. onychophoran
  11. onychophorans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onychophagia (page history and authors); onychophagia (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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