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coprophagy

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10 lettersPart of speech nounSorted acghooppryStarts with CEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity

Word origin

From copro- (“excrement”) + -phagy (“to feed on”).

Used in a sentence

  • We use "coprophagy" as the simplest available general term to describe ingestion of the feces, without any implication of cause, circumstances, or the origin or nature of fecal material consumed.
  • Other studies postulate that dogs practice coprophagy in an attempt to conserve digestive enzymes, in particular protelytic enzymes and amylase (McCuistion, 1966).
  • In Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (2003), Kosky previewed the apocalypse in a blitz of surreal images that made coprophagy, as he puts it, look "gorgeous".

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