English Explanatory Dictionary

autophagi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Birds that are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as they are hatched.

Word forms

autophagi

Etymology

From auto- (“by oneself”) + Latin -phagus (“eater”, plural -phagī). The attested Ancient Greek αὐτοφάγος (autophágos) would have meant "self-devouring, autophagous".

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