| a combining form meaning “eating,” “feeding on,” “devouring” that specified by the initial element: creophagous; hylophagous; rhizophagous. |
| -phagous suff. Eating; feeding on: ichthyophagous. [From Latin -phagus, from Greek -phagos, from phagein, to eat; see bhag- in Indo-European roots.] |