Crossword-Solution: ZOOPHAGOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Zoophagous | a. | Feeding on animals. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “ZOOPHAGOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| carnivorous | 9 answers |
| Omnivorous | 10 answers |
| predatory | 35 answers |
| Rapacious | 36 answers |
| Gluttonous | 44 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ZOOPHAGOUS (4)
Had there been strong prepossessions against the progressive theory, it would probably have been argued that when these cephalopods abounded, and the siphonated gasteropods were absent, a higher order of zoophagous mollusca discharged the functions afterwards performed by an inferior order in the Secondary, Tertiary, and Post-Tertiary seas.
Among the zoophagous parasites, the parasitic habit has been developed from three different types of free-living Acarina: (a) predaceous forms, (b) scavengers, (c) forms living upon the juices of plants." Ewing also showed that among the living forms of Acarina we can trace out all the stages of advancing parasitism, semiparasitism, facultative parasitism, even to the fixed and permanent type, and finally to endoparasitism.
They belong principally to the genera _Buccinum_, _Pleurotoma_, _Rostellaria_, _Murex_, and _Fusus_, and exhibit a proportion of zoophagous species not very different from that which obtains in warm seas of the recent period.
The round holes in dead shells frequently met with on our coasts show that their inhabitants had fallen a prey to some of these zoophagous Mollusks.