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• -phagous

  a combining form meaning “eating,” “feeding on,” “devouring” that specified by the initial element: creophagous; hylophagous; rhizophagous. -phagous comb. form meaning “eating, feeding on,” from gk. -phagos “eater of,” from phagein “to eat,” lit. “to have a share of food,” from pie base -bhag- “to share out, apportion, distribute,” also “to get a share” (cf. […]

• -phagy

  a combining form meaning “eating,” “devouring” that specified by the initial element, especially as a practice or habit: allotriophagy; anthropophagy. also, -phagia. -phagy combining form indicating an eating or devouring anthropophagy word origin from greek -phagia; see phago- -phagy suff. variant of -phagia.

• -phane

  combining form indicating something resembling a specified substance cellophane word origin from greek phainein to shine, (in p-ssive) appear -phane comb. form meaning “having the appearance of,” from gk. -phanes, from phainein “to show,” phainesthai “to appear” (see phantasm). -phane or -phan suff. a substance resembling something specified: tryptophan.

• -phany

  a combining form occurring in loanwords from greek, meaning “appearance,” “manifestation” (epiphany); used in the formation of compound words (christophany; satanophany). -phany combining form indicating a manifestation theophany derived forms -phanous, combining_form:in_adjective word origin from greek -phania, from phainein to show; see -phane

• -phasia

  a combining form used in the names of speech disorders, as specified by the initial element: aphasia. also, -phasy. -phasia combining form indicating speech disorder of a specified kind aphasia derived forms -phasic, combining_form:in_adjective, combining_form:in_noun:countable word origin from greek, from phanai to speak -phasia suff. a speech disorder of a specified kind: dysphasia.

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