Usually means: Eating a wide variety of foods.
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  1. polyphagy: Merriam-Webster
  2. polyphagy: Collins English Dictionary
  3. polyphagy: Wordnik
  4. polyphagy: Wiktionary
  5. Polyphagy, polyphagy: Dictionary.com
  6. Polyphagy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Polyphagy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. polyphagy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Polyphagy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. polyphagy: FreeDictionary.org
  11. polyphagy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. polyphagy: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  (biology) The ability of an animal to eat a variety of food (e.g. several different families of plants)

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polyphagia, polyphagism, polytrophy, polyphyly, polyphylety, oligophagy, polyphyletism, polytroph, phyllophagy, phagism, more...

Opposite:
monophagy, oligophagy, univory

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Similar:
polyphagia, polyphagism, polytrophy, polyphyly, polyphylety, oligophagy, polyphyletism, polytroph, phyllophagy, phagism, more...

Opposite:
monophagy, oligophagy, univory



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