Phagy Words, Quiz #3

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  1. Eating or consuming serpents.
    (a) osteophagous (b) oophagous (c) ophiophagous (d) onychophagia (e) omophagia

  2. Utilizing only a small variety of food species.
    (a) oligophagy (b) nekrophytophagy (c) myrmecophagy (d) monophagy (e) onychophagy

  3. Feeding on relatively large food particles or prey.
    (a) osteophagy (b) necrophagous (c) myrmecophagy (d) macrophagous (e) ophiophagous

  4. The eating of eggs; said of insects whose diet consists largely of eggs.
    (a) meconophagy (b) oophagy (c) piscivorous (d) macrophagouss (e) macrophytophagous

  5. The habit of biting one’s fingernails; habitual nailbiting.
    (a) myrmecophagy (b) microphagy (c) monophagia (d) mallophagous (e) onychophagy

  6. Pain when swallowing (eating).
    (a) meliphagous (b) onychophagia (c) odynophagous (d) necrophage (e) mycophage

  7. Eating raw food, especially raw flesh.
    (a) omophagous (b) neustophagous (c) necrophagous (d) mycophagous (e) meconophagy

  8. To eat or subsist on dead bodies; such as, carrion.
    (a) meconophagism (b) macrophytophagous (c) mallophagous (d) necrophagy (e) monophagous

  9. Feeding on ants or termites.
    (a) nekrophytophagous (b) mycophagous (c) myrmecophagous (d) neuronophagy (e) odynophagous

  10. The consumption or eating of oysters.
    (a) ophiphagous (b) omophagia (c) oligophagous (d) opsophagy (e) ostreophagous


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