zoophagous
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See also: zoöphagous
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Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
zoophagous (not comparable)
- carnivorous
- 1897, w:Bram Stoker, chapter VI, in Dracula, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 67:
- 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.