Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Feeding on animal matter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Devouring animals; sarcophagous; carnivorous: opposed to phytophagous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Feeding on animals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
carnivorous
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of animals) carnivorous
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Examples
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It was dark when I was able to inquire about my zoophagous patient.
Dracula 2003
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I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous
Dracula 2003
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He is himself zoophagous, and in his wild ravings outside the chapel door of the deserted house he always spoke of
Dracula 2003
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My own work, with its manifold arrears, took me all day to clear off; it was dark when I was able to inquire about my zoophagous patient.
Dracula 1897
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How he has been making use of the zoophagous patient to effect his entry into friend John's home; for your Vampire, though in all afterwards he can come when and how he will, must at the first make entry only when asked thereto by an inmate.
Dracula 1897
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Stay; he is himself zoophagous, and in his wild ravings outside the chapel door of the deserted house he always spoke of "master."
Dracula 1897
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I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way.
Dracula 1897
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How he has been making use of the zoophagous patient to effect his entry into friend
Dracula Bram Stoker 1879
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I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous (life-eating) maniac.
Dracula Bram Stoker 1879
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It was dark when I was able to inquire about my zoophagous patient.
Dracula Bram Stoker 1879
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