moonrat/data/biological-diet.mg

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// description: biological diets (herbivorous, carpophagous, etc.)
// source: http://phrontistery.info/feed.html
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[diet]
diet
allotriophagy
// definition = craving for strange foods
androphagy
// definition = cannibalism
anthropophaginian
// definition = cannibal
anthropophagous
// definition = eating humans
aphagia
// definition = inability to eat or swallow
apivorous
// definition = eating bees
arachnivorous
// definition = feeding on spiders
autocoprophagy
// definition = eating one's own feces
autophagy
// definition = feeding on body's own tissues
baccivorous
// definition = eating berries
batrachivorous
// definition = frog-eating
bibliophagist
// definition = one who devours books, literally or figuratively
calcivorous
// definition = feeding on or living in limestone
cardophagus
// definition = donkey; something that eats thistles
carnivorous
// definition = eating flesh
carpophagous
// definition = fruit-eating
cepivorous
// definition = onion-eating
chthonophagia
// definition = eating dirt
comburivorous
// definition = consuming by fire
coprophagous
// definition = eating feces
creatophagous
// definition = carnivorous; flesh-eating
creophagous
// definition = flesh-eating; carnivorous
detritivore
// definition = animal that eats decomposing organic matter
dysphagia
// definition = pathological difficulty in swallowing
endophagy
// definition = cannibalism within a tribe; eating away from within
entomophagous
// definition = eating insects
equivorous
// definition = consuming horseflesh
exophagy
// definition = cannibalism outside one's own group
foliophagous
// definition = eating leaves; eating folios of books
formivorous
// definition = eating ants
fructivorous
// definition = feeding on fruit
frugivorous
// definition = eating fruit
fucivorous
// definition = eating seaweed
galactophagist
// definition = milk drinker
gamophagia
// definition = destruction of one gamete by another
geophagy
// definition = practice of feeding on soil; dirt-eating
glossophagine
// definition = eating using the tongue
graminivorous
// definition = feeding on grass or cereals
granivorous
// definition = feeding on seeds
gumnivorous
// definition = feeding on tree saps
herbivorous
// definition = eating only plant matter
hippophagy
// definition = feeding on horses
homnivorous
// definition = eating humans
hylophagous
// definition = eating wood
hyperphagia
// definition = eating too much
ichthyophagous
// definition = fish-eating
insectivorous
// definition = eating insects
kreatophagia
// definition = eating of raw meat
larvivorous
// definition = feeding on larvae
lignivorous
// definition = feeding on wood
limivorous
// definition = eating mud
lithophagous
// definition = stone-swallowing; rock-boring; eating rock
lotophagous
// definition = feeding on lotuses; indolent; lazy; dreamy
mallophagous
// definition = eating wool or fleece
meconophagist
// definition = consumer of opium or heroin
meliphagous
// definition = feeding upon honey
mellivorous
// definition = honey-eating
merdivorous
// definition = dung-eating
microphagous
// definition = feeding on small creatures or plants
monophagous
// definition = feeding on only one type of food
mucivorous
// definition = feeding on plant juices
mycophagous
// definition = eating fungus
myristicivorous
// definition = feeding upon nutmegs
myrmecophagous
// definition = feeding on ants
necrophagous
// definition = feeding on the dead
nectarivorous
// definition = feeding on nectar
nucivorous
// definition = nut-eating
omnivorous
// definition = eating anything; eating both plant and animal matter
omophagy
// definition = eating of raw flesh as a ritual observance
onychophagist
// definition = nail-biter
ophiophagous
// definition = eating snakes
oryzivorous
// definition = rice-eating
ossivorous
// definition = feeding on bones
ostreophagous
// definition = oyster-eating
ovivorous
// definition = eating eggs
ovivorous
// definition = eating sheep
paedophage
// definition = eater of children
pagophagia
// definition = eating trays of ice to help offset iron deficiency
panivorous
// definition = bread-eating
pantophagy
// definition = omnivorousness
phthirophagous
// definition = lice-eating
phyllophagous
// definition = leaf-eating
phytivorous
// definition = feeding on plants
phytophagous
// definition = feeding on vegetable matter
piscivorous
// definition = fish-eating
placentophagy
// definition = eating of the placenta
plantivorous
// definition = plant-eating
plasmophagous
// definition = consuming plasma
poephagous
// definition = eating grass or herbs; herbivorous
poltophagy
// definition = prolonged chewing of food
polyphagous
// definition = eating many types of food
psomophagy
// definition = swallowing food without thorough chewing
radicivorous
// definition = eating roots
ranivorous
// definition = eating frogs
rhizophagous
// definition = root-eating
rhypophagy
// definition = eating filth
sanguivorous
// definition = blood-drinking
saprophagous
// definition = feeding on decaying material
sarcophagous
// definition = feeding on flesh; carnivorous
saurophagous
// definition = eating lizards
scatophagous
// definition = dung-eating
seminivorous
// definition = seed-eating
stercovorous
// definition = feeding on dung or excrement
thalerophagous
// definition = feeding on fresh vegetable matter
theophagy
// definition = sacramental consumption of a god
toxicophagous
// definition = eating poison
toxiphagous
// definition = poison-eating
univorous
// definition = living on only one host or source of food
vegetivorous
// definition = eating vegetables
vermivorous
// definition = eating worms
xerophagy
// definition = eating of dry food; fast of dry food in the week preceding Easter
xylophagous
// definition = wood-eating
zoophagy
// definition = eating animals