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Definition of Necrophagous
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan.
Definition of Necrophagous
1. Adjective. That eats dead or decaying animal flesh. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Necrophagous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Necrophagous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Necrophagous
Literary usage of Necrophagous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God: As Manifested in the Creation of by William Kirby (1837)
"'0 With regard to the necrophagous tribe, 1 do not recollect any mammalians that
... In the present class, the millipedes belong to the necrophagous tribe. ..."
2. The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as by Francis Henry Egerton Bridgewater (1837)
"With regard to the necrophagous tribe, I do not recollect any mammalians that are
... fn the present class, the millipedes belong to the necrophagous tribe. ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1835)
"With regard to the necrophagous tribe, I do not recollect any mammalians that
are exclusively ... and necrophagous animals, or those which devour dead ones, ..."
4. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1882)
"... and species of other genera that are not truly necrophagous, are often found
with the beetles above mentioned, perhaps attracted by the abundance of ..."
5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1891)
"Physicians, and dressmakers, know to what the vegetarian norm, represented by
the Venus of Milo, has been degraded in the modern necrophagous female of ..."
6. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"These false eagles most rarely kill any living bird or animal; and their
vulture-like, necrophagous habits are very evident to any one who has fallen asleep ..."
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