-PHAGOUS


Meaning of -PHAGOUS in English

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

[ -phagos, adj. deriv. of phágein to eat; see -OUS ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .