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- meaning "to devour", or -phage, -phagy, or -phagous from Gr**** φαγεῖν (phagein), meaning "to eat". The evolution of feeding is varied with some feeding...
- sarcophagus comes from the Gr**** σάρξ sarx meaning "flesh", and φαγεῖν phagein meaning "to eat"; hence sarcophagus means "flesh-eating", from the phrase...
- ecosystem. It derives from Gr**** οἶκος (oikos) 'house, household' and φαγεῖν (phagein) 'to eat'. Freitas used the term to describe a scenario involving molecular...
- polyphaga is derived from two Gr**** words: poly-, meaning 'many', and phagein, meaning 'to eat', so the suborder is called the “eaters of many things”...
- word is derived from the Ancient Gr**** κόπρος kópros "****" and φαγεῖν phageîn "to eat". Coprophagy refers to many kinds of ****-eating, including eating...
- Sarcophagidae (from Ancient Gr**** σάρξ sárx 'flesh' and φαγεῖν phageîn 'to eat') are a family of flies commonly known as flesh flies. They differ from...
- within bacteria and archaea. The term is derived from Ancient Gr**** φαγεῖν (phagein) 'to devour' and bacteria. Bacteriophages are composed of proteins that...
- of feeding on blood (from the Gr**** words αἷμα haima "blood" and φαγεῖν phagein "to eat"). Since blood is a fluid tissue rich in nutritious proteins and...
- ξυλοφάγος (xulophagos) "eating wood", from ξύλον (xulon) "wood" and φαγεῖν (phagein) "to eat". Animals feeding only on dead wood are called sapro-xylophagous...
- Phagocytosis (from Ancient Gr**** φαγεῖν (phagein) 'to eat' and κύτος (kytos) 'cell') is the process by which a cell uses its plasma membrane to engulf...