coprophagous – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
coprophagous
adj.
eats dung, nourished by feces (common in certain beetles, birds, etc.)
Coprophagia
Coprophagia or
coprophagy is the consumption of
feces. The word is derived from the
Greek κόπρος
copros, "feces" and φαγεῖν
phagein, "to eat".
Coprophagy refers to many kinds of feces eating, including eating feces of other species (heterospecifics), of other individuals (allocoprophagy), or its own (autocoprophagy) – those once deposited or taken directly from the
anus.
Coprophagous
(a.)
Feeding upon dung, as certain insects.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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One who eats excrement
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