单词 | zoophagous |
释义 | zoophagousadj. Feeding on animals or animal matter; carnivorous; insectivorous; (formerly) spec. †belonging to either of two taxonomic groups called Zoophaga (see zoophagan n.) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by eating habits > [adjective] > carnivorous carnivorous1646 zoophagous1788 1788 W. Nicholson tr. A.-F. de Fourcroy Elements Nat. Hist. & Chem. IV. 418 Zoophagous animals [Fr. des animaux zoophages], whose humours are more attenuated than most quadrupeds;..must possess stronger and more numerous virtues. 1822 Monthly Rev. Dec. 485 The divisions and subdivisions of the Trachelipoda, or third order of Mollusca, are necessarily more complex; but the subordinate titles are ranged under one of two sections, the first of which comprizes the Phytophagous, and the second the Zoophagous sorts. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvi. 70 Zoophagous animals, or those which attack and devour living animals. 1841 Trans. Zool. Soc. 2 321 The false molars are simply conical, but more compressed than in the Zoophagous Marsupials. 1881 Nature 3 Feb. 324/1 The countless host of animals that inhabit the depths of the ocean, all of which are necessarily zoophagous. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula vi. 72 I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous (life-eating) maniac. 1954 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 23 234 He described differences between those larvae which fed on dung and those larvae which were zoophagous. 1994 Hydrobiologia 279 153/1 During the migration period.., transient birds are essentially zoophagous. 2006 Biodiversity & Conservation 15 289 There were significantly more zoophagous bug species in wildflower areas than in pastures. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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