Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

autophagous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
au-tophagous
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Self-eating; exhibiting autophagy.

Etymology

From auto- + -phagous.

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Questions

What does autophagous mean?
Self-eating; exhibiting autophagy.
Where does autophagous come from?
From auto- + -phagous.

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