Definitions
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- noun rare The
feeding onanimals
Etymologies
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From zoo- (“relating to animals”) + -phagy (“feeding on”).
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Examples
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You must get a new patient, doctor, if you wish to study zoophagy!
Dracula 1897
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The great passion of Frank Buckland (1826-1880) was zoophagy, the eating of unusual animals.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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You must get a new patient, doctor, if you wish to study zoophagy!”
Dracula 2003
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You must get a new patient, doctor, if you wish to study zoophagy! "
The Deadlocked City Elon, Amos 2001
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You must get a new patient, doctor, if you wish to study zoophagy! "
Dracula Bram Stoker 1879
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