Etymology

durophagy

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Today it means: The eating of hard-shelled foods such as bones or nuts, or prey organisms such as shellfish. Full definition →

Latin durus
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  1. Latin · derived fromdurus“hard”
  2. English todaydurophagy

From Latin durus (“hard”) + -phagy.

Words from the same roots

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