coprophagous
adjective
feeding on dung, as certain beetles.
coprophagia
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a word derived from
coprophagous.
Example Sentences
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Like my Winnie, about 16% of dogs are “serious” poop eaters, repulsively caught in the act of eating feces more than five times, and deemed to have the fancier, scientific term of coprophagia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
Veterinary behaviorists Debra Horwitz and Gary Landsberg highlight that although coprophagia could simply be a dog into eating poop, the behavior could have medical underpinnings, and a veterinarian should be consulted if there's concern.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 21, 2018
Other infections, such as hookworms and roundworms, can be transmitted in a practice called coprophagia, in which animals ingest one another’s stool or by licking each others’ anuses, Dr. Nandi said in an email.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2016
Other infections, such as hookworms and roundworms, can be transmitted in a practice called coprophagia, in which animals ingest one another’s stool or by licking each others’ anuses, Nandi said in an email.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2016
We regard them as almost insane, fortified in that belief by the undoubted fact that coprophagia is not uncommon among the insane.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis
