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saprozoic

saprozoic adjective: feeding on dead or decaying animal matter.

Adjective

saprozoic (comparative more saprozoic, superlative most saprozoic)

  1. feeding on dead or decaying animal matter
  2. saprophagous

Forms of saprozoic

comparativemore saprozoic
superlativemost saprozoic

Origin of saprozoic

From sapro- + -zoic.

Questions about saprozoic

What does saprozoic mean?
Saprozoic means feeding on dead or decaying animal matter.
What part of speech is saprozoic?
Saprozoic is an adjective.

Words near saprozoic in the dictionary

  1. saproxanthin
  2. saproxylic
  3. saproxylics
  4. saproxylophagous
  5. saproxylophagy
  6. saprozoic
  7. sapræmia
  8. saps
  9. sapsago
  10. sapsagos
  11. sapscull

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