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Hematophagous vs Hematophagy - What's the difference?

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Hematophagous is a related term of hematophagy.


As an adjective hematophagous

is feeding on blood.

As a noun hematophagy is

the practice, of some animals, of feeding on blood.

hematophagous

English

Alternative forms

* haematophagous (British)

Adjective

(-)
  • Feeding on blood.
    • Leech is a hematophagous creature.

    hematophagy

    English

    (wikipedia hematophagy)

    Alternative forms

    * haematophagy

    Noun

    (-)
  • The practice, of some animals, of feeding on blood.
  • * 2005 , Conrad C. Labandeira, "Fossil History and Evolutionary Ecology of Diptera and Their Associations with Plants", in'' David K. Yeates & Brian M. Wiegmann (editors), ''The Evolutionary Biology of Flies , page 239
    • Most Lower brachyceran taxa also have nectarivorous or related fluid diets..., although a few basal clades have shifted to predominantly hematophagy ; particularly the Spaniidae, Anthericidae, Xylophagidae, and certain lineages within the Tabanidae.

    Synonyms

    * hematophagia

    Related terms

    * hematophagous * hemovore