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poliphagous

poliphagous is the dated form of polyphagous.

Meaning of polyphagous

Adjective

polyphagous (not comparable)

  1. Eating many types of food.
    • Animals show various degrees of adaptation aimed at taking advantage of available resources, but. . . most can be considered either specialists or generalists. Among plant-eating insects the more specific terms polyphagous, oligophagous, and monophagous are widely employed in relation to the...Timothy Johns: The Origins of Human Diet and Medicine -- CHEMICAL ECOLOGY. →ISBN, p. 5
  2. Feeding on many different species of host plants.
    • 2024 WA Government Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development: Agriculture and Food
      Polyphagous shot-hole borer Euwallacea fornicatus is a beetle native to Southeast Asia. The beetle attacks a wide range of plants by tunnelling into trunks, stems and branches.
      Polyphagous shot-hole...

Forms of poliphagous

comparativemore poliphagous
superlativemost poliphagous

Questions about poliphagous

What is poliphagous the dated form of?
Poliphagous is the dated form of polyphagous.

Words near poliphagous in the dictionary

  1. poliovirion
  2. poliovirions
  3. poliovirology
  4. poliovirus
  5. polioviruses
  6. poliphagous
  7. poliplicate
  8. Poliquin
  9. Poliquins
  10. polis
  11. Polisario Front

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