hematophagy

الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية

تعريف hematophagy في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.

The practice, of some animals, of feeding on blood

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.

المترادفات

hematophagia

علم أصول الكلمات

() From Ancient Greek αἷμα (haima, “blood”) and the suffix -phagy (to feed on); from ἔφαγον (ephagon, “I ate”) + -y