Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Self-devouring.
- Self-feeding; capable of feeding itself, as a precocial bird: equivalent in application (but not in meaning) to hesthogenous or ptilopædic, and opposed in meaning to heterophagous (which see).
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Examples
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Rather, it becomes what Wacquant calls "autophagous," provoking
Concurring Opinions 2010
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Did Baum think of worlds of this sort as autophagous organisms, like the pig sculpted out of its own reduced fat?
Hard Road Barbara D’Amato 2001
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