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MYCOPHAGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mycophagy mean?
• MYCOPHAGY (noun)
The noun MYCOPHAGY has 1 sense:
1. the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild)
Familiarity information: MYCOPHAGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("mycophagy" is a kind of...):
eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)
Derivation:
mycophagist (a person or animal who eats fungi (especially mushrooms))
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