Meaning of phagism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A trophic pattern (one of monophagy, oligophagy, or polyphagy).
   uncountable
2. A desire to eat that is not based on nutritional need.
   rare, uncountable

Examples

“The relation of the said groups of phagism to the life - forms of the plants they live on is shown in Table 9.”

“Finally, Brues' third prediction regarding the presence of regional and/or seasonal preferences (i.e., Brues' host races) appears fairly well documented for insects of all phagism categories ( Brues, 1923; 1946; Buxton, 1923; Brower, 1958b; Dowwney & Fuller, 1961; Neck, 1973).”

“The most common mode of diet specialization among phytophagous insects seems to lie between the two extreme forms of phagism.”

“Precosmophobic phagism, or undifferentiated phagism, is phagism with no limits of space or time: the devouring mouth, as it were, unites the individual with the whole world for all time.”

“In the scale of awareness, scatism shares with cosmophobic phagism the cosmophobic level of awareness, although there can be no doubt that both culturally and individually cosmophobic phagism is far more important than scatism.”

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