hematophagy
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- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌhiː.məˈtɒf.ə.dʒɪ/, /ˌhiː.məˈtɒf.ə.ɡɪ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌhi.məˈtɑf.ə.d͡ʒi/
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hematophagy (uncountable)
- The practice, of some animals, of feeding on blood.
- 2005, Conrad C. Labandeira, “Fossil History and Evolutionary Ecology of Diptera and Their Associations with Plants”, in David K. Yeates, Brian M. Wiegmann, editors, The Evolutionary Biology of Flies, page 239:
- 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.
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practice of feeding on blood
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