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sarcophagy

sarcophagy noun: the practice of eating flesh.

Noun

sarcophagy (uncountable)

  1. The practice of eating flesh.
    • the movements against vivisection, opium, alcohol, tobacco, sarcophagy, and the male sex

Origin of sarcophagy

From sarco- + -phagy.

Words formed from sarcophagy

Questions about sarcophagy

What does sarcophagy mean?
Sarcophagy means the practice of eating flesh.
What part of speech is sarcophagy?
Sarcophagy is a noun.

Words near sarcophagy in the dictionary

  1. sarcophaguses
  2. sarcophagusing
  3. sarcophaguslike
  4. sarcophagussed
  5. sarcophagusses
  6. sarcophagy
  7. sarcophile
  8. sarcophiles
  9. sarcophiline
  10. sarcophilines
  11. sarcophilous

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