zoophagyhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoophagy_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoophagy, n.
First published 2017

zoophagynoun

  1. 1849–
    The act or practice of eating animals or animal matter; the use of animals or animal matter as a food source.
    1. 1849
      Zoophagie, zoophagy.
      G. J. Adler, Dictionary German & English Language 818/1
    2. 1890
      The practice of eating flesh; zoöphagy; carnivorousness.
      Century Dictionary at Sarcophagy
    3. 1898
      At all times man have existed who have advocated a vegetable diet in opposition to the general practice of zoophagy.
      University Magazine & Free Review January 338
    4. 1901
      There is scarcely anything on record of old or modern sien having eternized themselves by zoophagy.
      J. J. M. de Groot, Relig. Syst. China vol. IV. ii. i. xiv. 363
    5. 1936
      In food habits they [sc. palaeopteroid insects] are, and possibly always were, scavenging and omnivorous with a tendency towards zoophagy.
      R. A. Wardle, General Entomology vi. 142
    6. 1978
      Zoöphagy in plants is associated with various modifications of the leaf.
      Quarterly Review of Biology vol. 53 170/2
    7. 2000
      Zoophagy might actually occur in at least a third of the 9800+ described species of Miridae.
      A. G. Wheeler in C. W. Schaefer & A. R. Panizzi, Heteroptera Econ. Importance xxviii. 657

zoophagy, n. was first published in June 2017.

zoophagy, n. was last modified in July 2023.