hematophagy

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Определение hematophagy в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

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.

Синонимы

hematophagia

Этимология

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