schizophagousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /skɪtˈsɒ.fə.ɡəs/

形容詞

schizophagous (not comparable)

1. (entomology, forensic entomology, zoology) That is necrophagous in earlier stages of life and becomes predaceous later on.
   • 1975 December, Michael Boness, “Arthropoden im Hochwassergenist von Flüssen”, in Bonn Zoological Bulletin‎, volume 26, page 399:

     70% of the specimens belonged to zoophagous species, 15% each to phytophagous and schizophagous ones. The majority of them originated from river banks, meadows, crop fields and waste land.