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sarcophagic

sarcophagic adjective: meat-eating.

Adjective

sarcophagic (comparative more sarcophagic, superlative most sarcophagic)

  1. Meat-eating.
    • At all events, the sarcophagic and stercophagic insects are attracted to their food chiefly, if not entirely, by odour.1923, Dan McKenzie, “Sense of Olfaction in Lower Animals”, in Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of Smells, William Heinemann (Medical Books), Ltd., pages 28–29

Synonyms of sarcophagic

Forms of sarcophagic

comparativemore sarcophagic
superlativemost sarcophagic

Origin of sarcophagic

From sarco- + -phagic.

Questions about sarcophagic

What does sarcophagic mean?
Sarcophagic means meat-eating.
What part of speech is sarcophagic?
Sarcophagic is an adjective.

Words near sarcophagic in the dictionary

  1. sarcopenic
  2. sarcophagal
  3. sarcophagan
  4. sarcophagans
  5. sarcophagi
  6. sarcophagic
  7. sarcophagid
  8. sarcophagids
  9. sarcophagine
  10. sarcophagise
  11. sarcophagised

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