Etymology

foliophagy

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Today it means: The eating of leaves. Full definition →

Latin folium
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromfolium“leaf”
  2. English todayfoliophagy

From Latin folium (“leaf”) + -phagy (“to feed on”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.