Usually means: Feeds on decaying organic matter.
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  1. saprophagous: Merriam-Webster
  2. saprophagous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. saprophagous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. saprophagous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. saprophagous: Vocabulary.com
  6. saprophagous: Wordnik
  7. saprophagous: Wiktionary
  8. saprophagous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. saprophagous: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. saprophagous: Dictionary.com
  11. Saprophagous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Saprophagous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. saprophagous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. saprophagous: Rhymezone
  15. saprophagous: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  16. Saprophagous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. saprophagous: FreeDictionary.org
  18. saprophagous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. saprophagous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. saprophagous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. saprophagous: Encyclopedia

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  1. saprophagous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. saprophagous: Medical dictionary

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  1. Saprophagous: HYPP Zoology

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Definitions from Wiktionary (saprophagous)

▸ adjective:  Feeding on dead or decaying organic matter

Similar:
saprozoic, nourished, saprophagic, saprophilous, sarcosaprophagous, detritophagous, saprophytophagous, sapromycetophagous, histiophagous, saproxylophagous, more...

Opposite:
carnivorous, herbivorous, omnivorous

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Similar:
saprozoic, nourished, saprophagic, saprophilous, sarcosaprophagous, detritophagous, saprophytophagous, sapromycetophagous, histiophagous, saproxylophagous, more...

Opposite:
carnivorous, herbivorous, omnivorous



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