- phthirophagous
- \\thīˈräfəgəs\ adjective
Etymology: probably from (assumed) New Latin phthirophagus, from Greek phtheir louse + New Latin -o- + -phagus -phagous: eating lice
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
phthirophagous
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phthirophagous — lice eating Feeding and Eating … Phrontistery dictionary
phthirophagous — phthi·roph·a·gous … English syllables
phthirophagous — One who eats lice … Grandiloquent dictionary
Feeding and Eating — Like many people, I enjoy eating perhaps too much so. This list of 113 words describes different things one could eat, although a human would have to be pretty desperate to eat lice or limestone. Then again, I ve eaten at McDonald s hundreds of… … Phrontistery dictionary
phthiriasis — n. infestation with lice. ♦ phthirophagous, a. eating lice … Dictionary of difficult words
