ostreophagous
Look at other dictionaries:
ostreophagous — |ästrē|äfəgəs adjective Etymology: ostre + phagous : feeding on oysters * * * ostreophagous /os tri ofˈə gəs/ adjective Oyster eating • • • Main Entry: ↑Ostrea … Useful english dictionary
ostreophagous — adj. eating oysters … English contemporary dictionary
ostreophagous — os·tre·oph·a·gous … English syllables
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
ostreiform — a. oyster shaped or like. ♦ ostreiculture, n. oyster breeding. ♦ ostreoid, a. oyster like. ♦ ostreophagous, a. oyster eating … Dictionary of difficult words
Ostrea — noun type genus of the family Ostreidae • Syn: ↑genus Ostrea • Hypernyms: ↑mollusk genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Ostreidae, ↑family Ostreidae • Member Meronyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
ostre- — combining form or ostrei or ostreo Etymology: Latin ostre , from ostrea : oyster ostreiform … Useful english dictionary
