Word.ws English Dictionary

zoophaga

zoophaga noun: an artificial group comprising various carnivorous and insectivorous animals.

Noun

zoophaga pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An artificial group comprising various carnivorous and insectivorous animals.

Forms of zoophaga

alternative formzoöphaga

Origin of zoophaga

New Latin, from Ancient Greek ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”) + φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”)

Questions about zoophaga

What does zoophaga mean?
Zoophaga means an artificial group comprising various carnivorous and insectivorous animals.
What part of speech is zoophaga?
Zoophaga is a noun.

Words near zoophaga in the dictionary

  1. zoopathologist
  2. zoopathologists
  3. zoopathology
  4. zoopathy
  5. zoopery
  6. zoophaga
  7. zoophagan
  8. zoophagans
  9. zoophage
  10. zoophages
  11. zoophagia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: zoophaga (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “zoophaga.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/zoophaga. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.