How do you pronounce zoophagous?

The recorded pronunciation is /zəʊˈɒfəɡəs/.

zoophagous

/zəʊˈɒfəɡəs/

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"A zoophagous insect."
"My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoöphagous (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way."

zoo- + -phagous.

phytozoophagous

zoophagia

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