-phagous


  1. a combining form meaning “eating,” “feeding on,” “devouring” that specified by the initial element: creophagous; hylophagous; rhizophagous.

Origin of -phagous

1
<Greek -phagos, adj. derivative of phágein to eat; see -ous

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