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foliophagy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
fo-lio-phagy
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The eating of leaves.

Uncountable

Etymology

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

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Questions

What does foliophagy mean?
The eating of leaves.
Where does foliophagy come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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