adj
(biology) That feeds on mites
n
(biology) Any organism that eats grasshoppers and locusts
adj
(biology) that eats grasshoppers and locusts
n
An embryo that practices adelphophagy
adj
(of flies) That are nourished by internal glands after being internally hatched
n
(rare, obsolete) Non-flesh-eating, abstention from eating meat.
adj
(very rare) That eats whitefly (of the family Aleyrodidae)
adj
(biology) That feeds on wheat flour (typically, as a pest)
n
An organism that consumes algae.
adj
(biology) algae-eating
n
(biology) The condition of being algophagous
n
(rare) An eater of garlic.
n
(biology) feeding on excrement produced by other animals
n
(rare) Having food cravings that are different from the expected or the norm
n
(chiefly biology) An animal that feeds on a variety of foods of different kind.
adj
(chiefly biology) That feeds on a variety of foods of different kind.
adj
(zoology) Feeding on grapevines.
adj
Inclined to eat human flesh.
n
(loosely, colloquial) Any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.).
n
A creature that eats animals
adj
That eats (other) animals
n
(biology) feeding on flowers
n
(zoology) An organism that visits flowers.
adj
Cannibalistic; man-eating.
adj
Alternative form of anthropophagic [Cannibalistic; man-eating.]
n
(rare, humorous) One who eats human flesh.
n
(rare) The paraphilia of cannibalism preceded by rape.
adj
Who practices anthropophagy; cannibal.
adj
(botany) Serving to repel herbivores.
adj
That protects a plant from being eaten
adj
(biology) That eats anurans (frogs and toads)
n
An animal atop the food chain, preying but not prey.
n
(medicine, zoology) Inability to feed due to anatomical deficiencies.
adj
(zoology) Feeding on aphids.
adj
(zoology) Feeding on aphids
n
(botany) pollination by bees
n
An organism that eats or consumes bees.
adj
Relating to the arachnids
n
The condition of being poisoned as a result of a spider's bite.
n
Alternative form of arachnidism [The condition of being poisoned as a result of a spider's bite.]
adj
Caused by the bite of a spider.
adj
(arachnology, relational) Relating to or resembling spiders.
n
The study of the appearance and behavior of spiders, or the patterns of their webs (possibly related to the third meaning) for use in divination.
n
Any organism that eats spiders.
n
A person who loves spiders, a spider-lover.
adj
(biology) That feeds on spiders (of the order Araneae).
n
(biology) Any organism that ingests archaeans, whether as food or as a source of energy
n
The condition of being archivorous
n
The eating of arsenic, formerly practiced for supposed health benefits.
n
The practice of eating arsenic.
n
(biology) feeding on arsenic compounds (typically by microbes)
n
(biology) Any animal that eats arthropods
n
(biology) The condition of being arthropodivorous
adj
That eats its own excrement.
n
The feeding on its own excrement
n
(rare) Self-consumption; the act of eating oneself.
adj
(biology) Of an insect, virus, etc., utilising birds.
n
(biology) Any animal that is specialized at preying on birds.
adj
(biology) That preys on birds
adj
(zoology) Eating, or having a diet based on, berries
adj
Pertaining to the predation and consumption of bacterium.
n
The feeding on bacteria.
n
Alternative form of bacterivore [(biology) Any organism that ingests bacteria, whether as food or as a source of energy.]
n
(biology) Any organism that ingests bacteria, whether as food or as a source of energy.
adj
(biology) feeding on bacteria
n
(biology) The ingestion of bacteria as food or as an energy supply
adj
That feeds on bacteria
adj
Alternative form of balanephagous [(rare) Acorn-eating.]
adj
(rare) Feeding on bananas; banana-eating.
n
Any animal that feeds of benthic prey
adj
That feeds on benthic prey
n
The condition of being benthivorous
n
(biology) Any organism that derives its nourishment from another living organism.
adj
That feeds on living creatures.
n
The property of being a biophage, a living organism that feeds on other living organisms.
adj
That have been fed on a diet of blood
n
(biology) Synonym of hematophagy
n
A cyclostome, such as a hagfish, which bores into injured, dead, or decaying sea creatures to feed on their flesh.
n
A fish or other aquatic creature that feeds off the bottom of its habitat; a flatfish.
n
Alternative form of bottom feeder [A fish or other aquatic creature that feeds off the bottom of its habitat; a flatfish.]
adj
Alternative spelling of bottom feeding [(of a fish or other aquatic creature) Feeding off plant and animal life found in the lowest regions of its habitat.]
adj
That feeds on bromeliads
n
(biology) The act of feeding on moss
n
sexton beetle; necrophore
n
(entomology) A technique of pollen collection practised by certain bee species in which the bee holds the flower and vibrates so as to shake pollen free.
n
(biology, rare) Any organism that consumes the cambium of plants.
adj
That feeds on crabs and other crustaceans
n
(botany) Pollination by beetles.
n
(informal) A person who eats food high in carbohydrates.
n
The condition of being carnivorous
adj
Predatory or flesh-eating.
adj
Living on fruits; fruit-eating.
n
The condition of being carpophagous
n
Alternative form of keratophagy [The condition of being keratophagous]
n
Excessive biting of the lips.
adj
(rare) Time-consuming.
n
(medicine) Alternative form of chthonophagia [(medicine) A disease characterized by the impulsive consumption of dirt, observed in some parts of the southern United States as well as the West Indies.]
adj
(biology) That is attracted to, and eats citrus plants
n
(biology) feeding on the contents of intestines
n
The condition of being coccidophagous
adj
(biology) That feeds on conifers
n
(ecology) An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
n
Alternative form of coprophilia [(psychiatry) a marked interest in excrement; especially the paraphilia involving sexual arousal and pleasure from feces.]
n
(nonce word) A group of coprolites.
n
(biology) Any animal known only as a coprolite
adj
Related to or involving coprology, the scientific study of feces.
n
The obsession with feces.
adj
(of an insect) That inhabits feces, and cultivates and feeds on fungi growing within
n
The condition of being copromycetophagous
adj
(biology) Both coprophagous and necrophagous, especially applied to certain beetles.
n
(zoology) A kind of beetle that feeds on dung.
n
(zoology) A living organism that feeds on feces or fecal matter.
n
Alternative form of coprophagy [The eating of feces.]
adj
Engaging in coprophagia.
n
(euphemistic, rare) shit-eating grin
adv
In a coprophagous manner
n
a coprophilous microorganism
n
(ecology) An organism (typically microorganisms and fungi) living off or growing in dung or other fecal matter.
adj
having to do with a marked interest in excrement, especially the use of feces or filth for sexual excitement.
adj
(chiefly ecology) Enjoying contact with excrement.
adj
living in, or growing on excrement
n
Alternative form of kreophagy [Flesh-eating; meat-eating.]
n
Alternative spelling of kreophagy [Flesh-eating; meat-eating.]
n
(ecology) Any organism that feeds off decomposing organic material, especially such a bacterium or fungus
adj
That feeds on the wood of trees
n
The condition of being dendrophagous
n
(biology) Any animal that feeds on marine deposits
n
(biology) The eating of one's shed skin
n
(biology) Any organism that converts dead matter into a form that can be recycled
n
(ecology) An organism that feeds on detritus; a detrivore, a saprophage.
adj
(ecology) That feeds on detritus; saprophagous
n
(biology) The action of a detritivore
n
(biology) Synonym of detritivore
adj
That feeds on detritus (dead or decaying organisms)
n
The condition of being detritophagous
n
(ecology) Any organism that feeds on detritus; a detritivore, a saprophyte.
adj
Alternative form of detritivorous [(ecology) That feeds on detritus; saprophagous]
n
(biology) The condition of being a detrivore
adj
(biology) That feeds on dipterans
n
Any durophagous organism.
adj
Of or relating to durophagy or an organism that practices it.
n
The eating of hard-shelled organisms.
n
One who or that which eats earth.
n
The consuming of ecosystems by nanotechnology that has gone awry.
n
The act of one embryo cannibalizing another for food in utero; at present only characterized in some species of sharks.
n
The custom of eating brains as food.
n
Any organism that encrusts part of its environment.
n
(anthropology) A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
n
(rare) Cannibalism, within a group.
adj
That feeds on dead insects (typically arthropods)
n
The condition of being entomonecrophagous
adj
Of or pertaining to entomophagy.
adj
feeding on insects; insectivorous
adj
That eats insects and plants
n
The condition of being entomophytophagous
n
A virus that has an insect host
adj
Feeding on horseflesh.
n
(biology) The eating of eukaryotes
n
(ecology, rare) Feeding on eukaryotes (by other eukaryotes).
n
(ecology) Any animal that eats a large variety of food.
adj
(ecology) Feeding on a large variety of food.
n
The condition of being euryphagous
adj
(biology, of insects) That feeds outdoors
n
(rare) Cannibalism, of those outside a social group.
adj
That feeds on other organisms
n
(biology) Any exudativorous animal
adj
That consumes exudates such as gum, sap, resin, latex
n
An animal (typically an insect) that feeds on plant exudates
n
Alternative form of fecolith [A calcified fecal deposit.]
n
Any animal that eats other animals.
n
The eating of other animals.
n
Synonym of feederism (“paraphilia involving overfeeding or overeating”)
n
Alternative form of foetophagy [The eating of an aborted foetus (by some monkeys)]
n
(biology) Any aquatic animal that obtains nourishment by filtering particles of food from the water in which it lives.
n
(biology) Synonym of filter feeder
adj
(of a person) Being a flexivore.
n
(biology) Any organism that consumes flowers as the main part of its diet
n
The condition of being florivorous
n
(biology) Any organism that subsists on liquids derived from other organisms.
n
The eating of an aborted foetus (by some monkeys)
n
An organism that feeds on leaves; a folivore.
n
(biology) A herbivore that eats mostly foliage.
adj
(zoology) Eating leaves.
n
(zoology) The eating of leaves, especially as a major part of the diet of a particular species of animal, such animals being called folivores.
n
Alternative spelling of food web. [(ecology) A diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem, predators being higher in the web than their prey.]
n
Any animal that eats foraminifera
adj
Consuming or eating foraminifera
n
an organism that eats or consumes ants, such as an anteater
n
The condition of being fossorial
n
An animal whose diet is mostly fruit.
n
The condition of being frugivorous
n
An organism which feeds primarily on seaweed.
adj
Feeding primarily on seaweeds.
n
Any fungivorous organism; a fungus-eater.
n
The condition of being fungivorous
adj
(rare) Consuming milk.
adj
(biology) That feeds on jellyfish
adj
(zoology) Living in the earth; applied to the ground beetles.
n
A creature that eats earthy substances such as clay and chalk.
adj
That eats earth / soil etc
n
The act or habit of eating earth.
n
The practice of eating earthy substances such as clay and chalk, often thought to augment a mineral-deficient diet.
n
(zoology) The eating of the elderly.
n
An herbivorous animal, a grazer, that feeds primarily on grasses.
adj
(entomology) That eats grasses and seeds.
n
(biology) The condition of being graminivorous
n
Any animal that eats seeds as the main part of its diet
n
The condition of being granivorous
n
nutrition from bird droppings
n
(biology) Any animal that feeds on the gum or sap of trees
adj
Feeding on sap from a tree.
n
(rare) The eating of women.
adj
(British spelling) Feeding on blood.
n
Alternative form of hemovore [(biology) An organism that ingests blood as the main part of its diet; examples of hemovores include leeches, fleas, ticks, mosquitos, vampire bats, and the vampire ground finch.]
adj
Alternative form of helicophagous [(biology) that feeds on snails]
adj
(biology) that feeds on snails
n
(biology) feeding on snails
adj
That feeds on flukes and similar helminths
n
The condition of being helminthophagous
n
The practice, of some animals, of feeding on blood.
adj
That feeds on, or is nourished by blood
n
The condition of being hemophagous
n
(biology) An organism that ingests blood as the main part of its diet; examples of hemovores include leeches, fleas, ticks, mosquitos, vampire bats, and the vampire ground finch.
adj
(dated) Feeding on herbs and soft plants.
adj
Subsisting on both animal and vegetable food.
adj
That feeds on herbaceous plants
n
The condition of being herbiphagous
adj
(biology) Relating to herbivores or to herbivory
n
An organism that feeds chiefly on plants; an animal that feeds on herbage or vegetation as the main part of its diet.
n
The condition of being herbivorized
adj
(of plants) eaten by herbivores
adj
Feeding chiefly on plants.
adj
(biology) Relating to heterophagy
n
(biology) The digestion, within a cell, of material ingested via phagocytosis or pinocytosis
n
Someone who eats horsemeat
n
The eating of horsemeat.
n
(rare) A person that eats horse meat.
adj
Synonym of hippophagous (“feeding on horseflesh”)
adj
Feeding on horseflesh.
n
The eating of horsemeat.
adj
Alternative form of histiophagous [Feeding on tissue.]
adj
Obtaining nutrition, as most animals, by the ingestion of organic matter.
adj
That devours human beings.
n
Alternative form of hyalophagy [The act of eating glass.]
n
The act of eating glass.
n
(biology) feeding on organisms that are, themselves cannibals
n
(paleobiology) Any creature with an increased slicing component of dentition relative to the grinding component.
n
The condition of being a hypercarnivore
n
Alternative form of hyperphagia [Synonym of polyphagia]
adj
Eating meat, but as a lesser component of the diet.
n
The condition of being a hypocarnivore
adj
Obsolete spelling of hematophagous
n
That which consumes fish; any fish-eating thing or (more rarely) person.
adj
Synonym of ichthyophagous
adj
(biology) feeding on fish
n
(archaic) The practice of eating fish.
adj
(rare, biology) Feeding on fish; piscivorous.
adj
(biology, of a fish) That feeds (typically on mud) in the lowest layer of water
n
Insect-eating animal or plant.
adj
(of a plant) Capable of trapping and absorbing insects; such as the sundew, pitcher plant and Venus flytrap.
n
Any of several unrelated plants modified to capture and digest insects, which supply nitrogen that may otherwise be unavailable in their habitat.
n
The condition of being an insectivore
n
Feeding on invertebrates
adj
(biology) Feeding on invertebrates.
n
The condition of being invertivorous
adj
That feeds on hair, nails and similar hard tissue
n
The condition of being keratophagous
n
(biology) kleptoparasitic hematophagy
n
(now rare) A flesh-eater, a person who eats flesh (meat).
n
Flesh-eating; meat-eating.
adj
(biology) That feeds on tears
n
The condition of being lachryphagous
n
(biology) An animal that larderhoards
n
(biology) Anything that eats larvae
adj
(chiefly of fish) That feed on the larvae of insects
n
Any organism that consumes leaves.
adj
Relating to lepidophagy
n
The feeding on scales (of other fish)
adj
(biology) That eats insects of the order Lepidoptera
adj
That feeds on lichens.
n
The condition of being lichenophagous
n
The abnormal behaviour of chewing and eating wood.
adj
Eating mud or soil for organic matter in it.
n
Any animal that consumes mud.
adj
(zoology) Eating or swallowing stones or gravel.
n
The practice of ingesting stones to aid in digestion. Examples of lithophagy occur in some birds (Aves) and crocodylians (Crocodylia).
n
A member of the Lotophagi; a lotus eater.
adj
In the manner of a lotus eater.
n
Any organism that eats macroalgae
adj
(zoology) That functions as a macroborer
n
(biology) A relatively large carnivore
n
(biology) Any relatively large detritivore
n
(ecology) Any large herbivore (over approximately 500 kilograms in weight)
n
(biology) Any organism that feeds on macroinvertebrates
n
The condition of being a macroinvertivore
adj
(zoology) That feeds on relatively large particles or prey.
n
(zoology) The condition of being macrophagous.
n
(biology) Any organism that feeds on macroplankton
adj
That feeds on molluscs
n
The condition of being malacophagous
n
(entomology) Collecting insects with a Malaise trap.
adj
(biology) That feeds on (the blood of) mammals
n
The consumption of human flesh by animals
n
The condition where organisms feed on their own mother
n
(biology) A relatively large frugivore
adj
relating to a megaherbivore
adj
(botany, of plants) That attract insects such as ants or bees which then pollinate the flower
adj
Alternative spelling of meliphagous [Of an animal, that feeds on honey or nectar.]
adj
Dung-eating, coprophagous.
n
Any animal whose diet consists of 30–70% meat.
adj
Relating to mesocarnivores
n
The condition of being a mesocarnivore
n
(biology) A mid-sized heterotrophic consumer
n
(ecology) Any medium-sized herbivore (approximately between 50 and 500 kilograms in weight)
n
(biology) A microbivorous organism
adj
(biology) Subsisting on microbes
adj
The condition of being microbivorous or of being an microbivore
n
(biology) A carnivore that eats very small animals (typically insect larva)
n
(biology) Any organism that feeds on microinvertebrates
adj
(zoology) Feeding on small particles.
n
(biology) The condition of being microphagous
adj
That feeds on myxomycetes
n
The condition of being mixomycetophagous
n
(biology) The condition of being a molluscivore
adj
That (prefers to) eat alone
n
(zoology) An insect that feeds on mucus, or the sap of plants, as certain Diptera, of the tribe Mucivora.
adj
(zoology) Feeding on the juices of plants.
n
An organism which consumes its own mucus.
n
The consumption of mucus.
n
Alternative form of mycophage [(biology) Any organism that eats fungus.]
n
Alternative form of mycophagy [(biology) The eating of fungus.]
n
(biology) Any organism that eats fungus.
n
(biology) The eating of fungus.
adj
(biology, botany) Spread, or having seeds that are dispersed, by ants.
adj
pertaining to the anteater
n
(zoology) The eating of ants.
adj
(biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
n
The condition of being myrmecophilous
n
(biology) The situation where a plant lives in association with a colony of ants.
n
(biology) feeding on ants
n
An organism that eats dead or decaying flesh.
n
the consumption of dead flesh or carrion
adj
That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
n
The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh
n
Any of various beetles that bury the carcasses of small vertebrates (such as birds and rodents) as a food source for their larvae
n
(zoology) An animal that principally eats nectar.
n
(zoology) The eating of nectar, especially as a major part of the diet of a particular species of animal.
adj
(biology) That feeds on nectar (of plant flowers)
adj
Synonym of nectarivorous
n
Alternative form of nectarivory [(zoology) The eating of nectar, especially as a major part of the diet of a particular species of animal.]
adj
(usually mycology) Consuming nematodes.
n
Any animal that lives in, and is dependent on, the pitcher of a Nepenthes pitcher plant.
adj
(chiefly of insects) that feed on a restricted range of food
n
(biology) An animal that eats many types of plant
n
The condition of being omnivorous
adj
eating or consuming everything
n
An animal which is able to consume both plants (like a herbivore) and meat (like a carnivore).
adj
Having a diet which is neither exclusively carnivorous nor exclusively herbivorous.
n
The consumption of both animal and plant matter, or of material from multiple trophic levels; the act or condition of being omnivorous.
n
The eating of raw food, especially raw flesh.
adj
Eating raw flesh; using uncooked meat as food.
adj
Eating raw flesh; using uncooked meat as food.
n
The eating of raw flesh.
adj
Relating to, or exhibiting oophagy
n
(zoology) The cannibalization of subordinate eggs within a homogeneous population or the uterus; particularly as it relates to certain insect and aquatic species.
n
Any animal that eats snakes.
adj
(zoology) Feeding on snakes.
n
(biology) An opportunistic feeder
n
A person who subsists on still-edible food that has been or was going to be discarded.
adj
(biology, botany) Spread, or having seeds (in fleshy fruits) that are dispersed, by birds.
n
Any organism that eats birds.
n
The condition of being ornithophagous
adj
(entomology) That feeds on birds.
adj
Having a diet rich in rice.
n
(biology) feeding on bones
adj
Bone-eating; of an animal, given to chewing on bones.
n
The eating or gnawing of bones
n
(zoology) An organism that eats or consumes the young of other species.
adj
(biology) Feeding off eggs or larvae.
n
(zoology, of animals) The act of feeding off larvae or eggs.
n
(zoology) Any organism that feeds on pollen; a pollinivore.
n
The condition of being palynophagous
adj
(formal) Eating bread.
adj
Eating all kinds of food.
n
A diet that consists of a variety of foods.
n
The inability to defecate in the presence of others.
n
(biology) Any organism that eats periphyton
n
A trophic pattern (one of monophagy, oligophagy, or polyphagy).
n
(biology) The deterrence of an organism from eating something.
n
(ecology) The mimicking of food to the extent that it will generate a feeding response.
n
(biology) The consumption of plants etc. to acquire beneficial chemicals, rather than for nutrition.
adj
(biology) That feeds on phloem
n
The act or custom of feeding on bark.
adj
(biology) That feeds on phloem
n
(biology) Any organism that attaches itself to another in order to travel.
adj
(zoology) that feeds on leaves; leaf-eating
n
The condition of being phyllophagous
adj
Feeding on plants or herbage; phytophagous.
n
A bezoar composed of undigestible plant material.
n
Any organism that eats plants.
adj
Alternative form of phytophagous [(zoology) Feeding on plants, herbivorous.]
adj
Alternative form of phytophagous [(zoology) Feeding on plants, herbivorous.]
adj
(zoology) Feeding on plants, herbivorous.
n
(zoology) The eating of plants.
adj
Thriving in the presence of plants (especially of an insect or other invertebrate).
adj
(biology) zoophagous, but prepared to consume plants if needed
n
The condition of being phytozoophagous
adj
(rare, biology) Feeding on fish; piscivorous.
adj
(chiefly of birds) That feeds on fish; fish-eating
n
(zoology) The eating of fish.
n
Alternative form of placentophagy [(rare) The feeding on placenta]
adj
feeding on the placenta
adj
feeding on the placenta
n
(rare) The feeding on placenta
adj
Alternative form of planktophagous [Consuming plankton.]
n
Something that has characteristics of both plants and animals.
n
(biology) An animal feeding primarily on plankton, such as a blue whale.
adj
Consuming or eating plankton
n
(biology) Any organism that feeds on plankton
adj
(biology) That feeds on plankton.
n
(biology, very rare) Feeding on plankton
adj
(zoology) Consuming plankton.
n
(biology) Any organism that feeds on plankton
n
Alternative form of planteater [A herbivorous animal.]
adj
That feeds on pollen, pollenophagous
adj
(biology) That feeds on pollen
n
(zoology) An animal that feeds on pollen; a palynivore.
n
Alternative form of palynophagy [The condition of being palynophagous]
n
Any animal which can eat a variety of food; an omnivore
n
(zoology) The eating of many different types of food
adj
Eating many types of food.
adj
Living by preying on other living animals.
n
(zoology) The consuming of a mother's excrement (by a young animal) when searching for a teat
adj
(botany, of a plant) Capable of trapping and killing insects or other animals but lacking the ability to digest or absorb nutrients from its prey.
n
Alternative form of pseudofaeces [(biology) Particles rejected by a mollusk as unsuitable for food and expelled without passing through the digestive tract.]
adj
Exhibiting or relating to psomophagy.
n
One who practises psomophagy.
n
(rare) The condition of not chewing food before swallowing it.
adj
(zoology) Feeding on the pupae of insects.
adj
Feeding on oak leaves.
adj
(zoology, rare) That feeds on plant roots.
n
A frog-eater; a creature that eats frogs.
n
(entomology) The eating of roots.
n
(rare) The feeding on filth
adj
(archaic, zoology) Eating filth.
n
The condition of being sanguivorous
adj
That lives in decaying matter and feeds on fungi within
n
The condition of being sapromycetophagous
adj
(biology) saprophagous and/or mycophagous
adj
Eating dead organic matter.
adj
Feeding on dead or decaying organic matter
n
The eating of non-living organic material.
adj
That feeds on saprophytes
n
(biology) Any organism that feeds on detritus
adj
That lives in or feeds on decaying wood.
adj
(biology) That lives in, or feeds on, decaying wood
adj
feeding on dead or decaying animal matter
adj
Feeding on sap from plants.
adj
That feeds on dead flesh, typically that of vertebrates
n
The condition of being sarconecrophagous
adj
Feeding on flesh; sarcophagous.
adj
(zoology) Feeding on flesh; carnivorous.
n
The practice of eating flesh.
adj
(zoology) Feeding on dead or decaying flesh.
adj
Synonym of coprophagous: typified by consuming shit or other excrement.
adj
Taking pleasure from contact with human excrement.
n
(biology) An animal that scatterhoards.
adj
(zoology) That feeds on seeds
n
a secondary consumer eats what is below it in the food chain.
adj
That feeds on (the blood of) monkeys
n
(biology) Any solenophagous (feeding directly on blood vessels) organism
adj
Feeding directly on blood from blood vessels.
n
(entomology) Of certain beetles, the consumption of fruits or seeds.
n
Any organism that feeds on sponges
n
(biology) The condition of being spongivorous, or of being a spongivore
n
(biology) Any spongobiotic animal
adj
That feeds on fungal spores
n
The condition of being sporophagous.
adj
(ecology) Feeding on a limited variety of food.
n
Eating just a few types of food, generally all of similar types, such as eating only some kinds of termites, or some kinds of lily bulbs, or some kinds of Eucalyptus leaves..
adj
Consisting of, resembling or pertaining to feces.
adj
Inhabiting deposits of excrement.
adj
Feeding on the sap of plants.
n
The feeding on a symbiote at the end of a symbiotic relationship
n
Any telmophagous organism
adj
(zoology) Feeding from a pool of blood caused by tissue laceration.
n
Feeding on termites as the dominant item of diet.
adj
Feeding on cephalopods.
adj
(biology) That feeds on cephalopods
adj
Feeding on fresh vegetable matter.
adj
Alternative form of telmophagous [(zoology) Feeding from a pool of blood caused by tissue laceration.]
n
Any leech that feeds on the blood of turtles
adj
(biology, demographics) Liking or consuming only one kind of product.
adj
(biology) That eats sea urchins
adj
Relating to, or characteristic of the viverrids
n
(entomology) A categorical change in diet, such as a herbivore becoming carnivorous.
n
A person or animal that practices xerophagy
n
A herbarium specialising in specimens of wood.
adj
(biology) That lives in/on wood
n
(chemistry, rare) The chemistry of wood
adj
Characteristic of wood; woody
adj
(biology) That eats fungi growing in wood
n
The condition of being xylomycetophagous
n
(biology) Any living organism that feeds on wood.
n
(biology) feeding on wood
adj
Feeding on wood. (of insects etc.)
adj
Alternative form of xylophilous [Living on or in wood, as some fungi and beetles do.]
adj
Living on or in wood, as some fungi and beetles do.
n
(botany) Any plant that lives on wood
adj
(biology) Living on wood
n
(biology) the felted stroma of various wood-destroying fungi
adj
(biology) That feeds on wood
n
(biology) The act of feeding on wood
n
(biology) Any creature that feeds on the zoobenthos
adj
That feeds on benthic animals
n
detritus of animal origin
adj
That feeds on fungi on other animals
n
The condition of being zoomycetophagous
n
An organism that consumes animal matter, or a species whose members do so; a carnivore
n
(pathology) The act of eating living creatures.
n
(rare) The feeding on animals
adj
(biology) Principally phytophagous but zoophagous if needs be
n
(biology) Any organism that consumes zooplankton
adj
(zoology) That consumes zooplankton.
n
The condition of being zooplanktivorous
adj
Alternative spelling of zoophagous [carnivorous]
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