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What (who) is -phagy - definition
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Food-mass feeder; Food-mass feeders; Monophagy; Polyphagy; Aphytophagy; Aphytophagia; Monophagia; Polyphagous; Aphytophagous; Phagia; -vore; -vorous; Eating behavior; List of vores; Vore suffix; Feeding behavior; Feeding behaviors; Feeding behaviour; Feeding behaviours; Bulk feeding; Bulk feeder; Phagy; -Phagy; Opportunistic feeder; Opportunistic feeders; Invertivore; -phagy; Appendix:Eating and feeding; List of feeding behaviors; Feeding Behaviour; Exophage; Exophagic; Exophagy
![A [[mosquito]] drinking blood ([[hematophagy]]) from a human (note the droplet of plasma being expelled as a waste)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anopheles stephensi.jpeg?width=200 "A [[mosquito]] drinking blood ([[hematophagy]]) from a human (note the droplet of plasma being expelled as a waste)")
![[[Hummingbird]]s primarily drink nectar](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colibri-thalassinus-001-edit.jpg?width=200 "[[Hummingbird]]s primarily drink nectar")
![A [[krill]] filter feeding](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Filterkrillkils2.gif?width=200 "A [[krill]] filter feeding")
![A [[red kangaroo]] eating grass](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kangur.rudy.drs.jpg?width=200 "A [[red kangaroo]] eating grass")
![A ''[[Myrmicaria brunnea]]'' feeding on [[sugar]] crystals](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Myrmicaria brunnea.jpg?width=200 "A ''[[Myrmicaria brunnea]]'' feeding on [[sugar]] crystals")
![The [[robberfly]] is an [[insectivore]], shown here having grabbed a [[leaf beetle]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pegesimallus sp robberfly.jpg?width=200 "The [[robberfly]] is an [[insectivore]], shown here having grabbed a [[leaf beetle]]")
![An [[American robin]] eating a worm](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robin eating a worm in spring.jpg?width=200 "An [[American robin]] eating a worm")
![A [[rosy boa]] eating a mouse whole](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rosy boa eating.JPG?width=200 "A [[rosy boa]] eating a mouse whole")
-phagy
¦ combining form denoting the practice of eating a specified food: anthropophagy.
Origin
from Gk -phagia, from phagein 'eat'.
Polyphagy
·noun The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.
List of feeding behaviours
Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food. Terminology often uses either the suffixes -vore, -vory, or -vorous from Latin vorare, meaning "to devour", or -phage, -phagy, or -phagous from Greek φαγεῖν (), meaning "to eat".
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List of feeding behaviours
Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food. Terminology often uses either the suffixes -vore, -vory, or -vorous from Latin vorare, meaning "to devour", or -phage, -phagy, or -phagous from Greek φαγεῖν (phagein), meaning "to eat".
