Agouara :: Agouara (n.) The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America..

Agouta :: Agouta (n.) A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti..

Agouti :: Agouti (n.) Alt. of Agout.

Agouty :: Agouty (n.) A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti..

Androphagous :: Androphagous (a.) Anthropophagous.

Anthophagous :: Anthophagous (a.) Eating flowers; -- said of certain insects.

Anthropophagous :: Anthropophagous (a.) Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

Aphidophagous :: Aphidophagous (a.) Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidae..

Batrachophagous :: Batrachophagous (a.) Feeding on frogs.

Carpophagous :: Carpophagous (a.) Living on fruits; fruit-consuming.

Coprophagous :: Coprophagous (a.) Feeding upon dung, as certain insects..

Entomophagous :: Entomophagous (a.) Feeding on insects; insectivorous.

Galactophagous :: Galactophagous (a.) Feeding on milk.

Geodephagous :: Geodephagous (a.) Living in the earth; -- applied to the ground beetles.

Geophagous :: Geophagous (a.) Earth-eating.

Hippophagous :: Hippophagous (a.) Feeding on horseflesh; -- said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars..

Hylophagous :: Hylophagous (a.) Eating green shoots, as certain insects do..

Ichthyophagous :: Ichthyophagous (a.) Eating, or subsisting on, fish..

Lithophagous :: Lithophagous (a.) Eating or swallowing stones or gravel, as the ostrich..

Lithophagous :: Lithophagous (a.) Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. See Lithodomus..

Meliphagous :: Meliphagous (a.) Eating, or feeding upon, honey..

Melliphagous :: Melliphagous (a.) See Meliphagous.

Multivagous :: Multivagous (a.) Wandering much.

Naufragous :: Naufragous (a.) causing shipwreck.

Necrophagous :: Necrophagous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan.

Noctivagous :: Noctivagous (a.) Noctivagant.

Ophiophagous :: Ophiophagous (a.) Feeding on serpents; -- said of certain birds and reptiles.

Ossifragous :: Ossifragous (a.) Serving to break bones; bone-breaking.

Pantophagous :: Pantophagous (a.) Eating all kinds of food.

Phyllophagous :: Phyllophagous (a.) Substituting on leaves; leaf-eating.

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