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Definition of Polyphagous
1. a. Eating, or subsisting on, many kinds of food; as, polyphagous animals.
Definition of Polyphagous
1. Adjective. That eats many types of food.(Compare this with euryphagous or omnivorous.) ¹
2. Adjective. Having many host plants (used for herbivorous insects). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Polyphagous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polyphagous
Literary usage of Polyphagous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Animal Life as Affected by the Natural Conditions of Existence by Carl Semper (1881)
"Monophagous and polyphagous animals.—Any division of animals into two such groups
as are here indicated has obviously none but a purely physiological value, ..."
2. The Natural Conditions of Existence as They Affect Animal Life by Carl Semper (1883)
"Monophagous and polyphagous animals.—Any division of animals into two such groups
as are here indicated has obviously none but a purely physiological value, ..."
3. Curiosities of Medical Experience by John Gideon Millingen (1839)
"Dr. Boehmen of Wittenberg witnessed the performance of one of these polyphagous
individuals, who commenced his repast by eating a raw sheep, a sucking-pig, ..."
4. Alternative Coca Reduction Strategies in the Andean Region (1994)
"This is the pit scale—a polyphagous pest of deciduous fruit trees and ornamentals.
... polyphagous. This is the rufous scale— a major pest of citrus. ..."
5. Insect Pests of Rice by M D Pathak, Z R Khan (1994)
"... other graminaceous crops and weeds Less common Tobacco, rice, other graminaceous
plants Less common polyphagous: oat, barley, wheat Less common Clover, ..."
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