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detritophage

noun

Etymology

From detritus + -o- + -phage.

  1. learned borrowing from dētrītus
  2. formed as detritophage — “detritus + -o- + -phage”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of detritivore.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for detritophage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA