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English
Etymology
From geo- + Adephaga + -ous.
Adjective
geodephagous (not comparable)
- (zoology, archaic) Living in the earth; applied to the ground beetles.
1897 January, The Zoologist, volume 1, number 667, Notes on the Chacma Baboon:When I first searched for insects in the Transvaal, and in a valley beneath high cliffs, I was intensely surprised to find the stones turned over before my arrival. Being positively certain that no other geodephagous coleopterist was in the neighbourhood, I was somewhat inclined, like the Roman missionaries, who, on their arrival in Thibet, found Catholic ritual among the Buddhists, to ascribe the circumstance to occult influence; but this was before I became acquainted with the insect-searching attributes of my friends the Baboons
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