Usually means: Eats only one type food.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word monophagous:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. monophagous: Merriam-Webster
  2. monophagous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. monophagous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. monophagous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. monophagous: Wordnik
  6. monophagous: Wiktionary
  7. monophagous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. monophagous: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. monophagous: Dictionary.com
  10. Monophagous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. monophagous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. monophagous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Monophagous: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monophagous: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Monophagous: HYPP Zoology
  2. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (monophagous)

▸ adjective:  (biology) That eats only one kind of food
▸ adjective:  That (prefers to) eat alone

Similar:
monotrophic, univorous, monoxenous, monophyletic, monophyletical, monophylic, monospecific, ambivorous, monotelic, monotaxic, more...

Types:
specialist, connoisseur, expert, aficionado, authority, pundit, savant, more...

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Similar:
monotrophic, univorous, monoxenous, monophyletic, monophyletical, monophylic, monospecific, ambivorous, monotelic, monotaxic, more...

Types:
specialist, connoisseur, expert, aficionado, authority, pundit, savant, more...



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