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pedophage

pedophage is the alternative form of paedophage.

Meaning of paedophage

Noun

paedophage (plural paedophages)

  1. An organism that eats or consumes the young of other species.

Forms of pedophage

pluralpedophages

Origin of pedophage

From pedo- (“child”) + -phage.

Questions about pedophage

What is pedophage the alternative form of?
Pedophage is the alternative form of paedophage.

Words near pedophage in the dictionary

  1. pedon
  2. Pedone
  3. Pedones
  4. pedons
  5. pedopathy
  6. pedophage
  7. pedophagic
  8. pedophagy
  9. pedophilaphobia
  10. pedophile
  11. pedophile phobia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pedophage (page history and authors); paedophage (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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