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zoophagous

Syllables: zo·oph·a·gous/zəʊˈɒfəɡəs/

zoophagous adjective: carnivorous.

Adjective

zoophagous (not comparable)

  1. (rare) carnivorous
    • A zoophagous insect.
    • My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoöphagous (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way.1897, Bram Stoker, chapter VI, in Dracula, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 67

zoophagous meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

zoophagous in Urdu

گوشت خور, حیوان خور

zoophagous in Bengali

মাংসাশী

zoophagous in Kannada

ಮಾಂಸಾಹಾರಿಯಾದ

Origin of zoophagous

zoo- + -phagous.

Words formed from zoophagous

Questions about zoophagous

What does zoophagous mean?
Zoophagous means carnivorous.
What is zoophagous in Urdu?
Zoophagous in Urdu is گوشت خور, حیوان خور. See Zoophagous meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is zoophagous?
Zoophagous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce zoophagous?
Zoophagous is pronounced /zəʊˈɒfəɡəs/.

Words near zoophagous in the dictionary

  1. zoophages
  2. zoophagia
  3. zoophagic
  4. zoophagist
  5. zoophagists
  6. zoophagous
  7. zoophagy
  8. zoopharmacognosy
  9. zoopharmacological
  10. zoopharmacology
  11. zoopharmacy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zoophagous (page history and authors); zoophagous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); zoophagous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); zoophagous (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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