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English
Etymology
From zoö- + -phagy.
Noun
zoöphagy (uncountable)
- Alternative form of zoophagy
1897, Bram Stoker, “Dr. Seward’s Diary”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter XX, page 296:“Oh, no, oh no! I want no souls. Life is all I want.” Here he brightened up; “I am pretty indifferent about it at present. Life is all right; I have all I want. You must get a new patient, doctor, if you wish to study zoöphagy!”
- 1973, Elisabeth Geck and Guido Pressler , Festschrift für Claus Nissen: zum siebzigsten Geburtstag, 2. Sept. 1971, page 182 (Pressler):
- Darwin’s stimulus influenced Profesor Karl von Goebel, and in turn, his student Francis Ernest Lloyd whose monograph, The Carnivorous Plants (1942) is the vade mecum for the student of zoöphagy in plants.
2006, Bram Stoker, Dracula — Literary Touchstone Edition, page 243:“…You must get a new patient, doctor, if you wish to study zoöphagy!”