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-phagous

 
a combining form meaning “eating,” “feeding on,” “devouring” that specified by the initial element: creophagous; hylophagous; rhizophagous.
Origin:
< Gk -phagos, adj. deriv. of phágein to eat; see -ous
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-phagous  
suff.   Eating; feeding on: ichthyophagous.


[From Latin -phagus, from Greek -phagos, from phagein, to eat; see bhag- in Indo-European roots.]

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-phagous 
comb. form meaning "eating, feeding on," from Gk. -phagos "eater of," from phagein "to eat," lit. "to have a share of food," from PIE base *bhag- "to share out, apportion, to get a share" (cf. Skt. bhajati "assigns, allots, apportions, enjoys, loves," bhaksati "eats, drinks, enjoys," O.C.S. bogatu "rich").

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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