• Coprophagy

    Origin

    From copro- (excrement) and the suffix -phagy (to feed on)

    Alternative forms

    Full definition of coprophagy

    Noun

    coprophagy

    (uncountable)
    1. The eating of feces.
      • 1980, G. J. Kenagy and D. F. Hoyt, "Reingestion of Feces in Rodents and Its Daily Rhythmicity," Oecologia, vol. 44, no. 3, p. 403,We use "coprophagy" as the simplest available general term to describe ingestion of the feces, without any implication of cause, circumstances, or the origin or nature of fecal material consumed.
      • 2010, Peter Conrad, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 52:In Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (2003), Kosky previewed the apocalypse in a blitz of surreal images that made coprophagy, as he puts it, look "gorgeous".
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