anthropophagous
A Word with Greek Root, Prefix or Suffix
phag
A Word with Greek Root, Prefix or Suffix
anthropophagous
feeding on human flesh
食人的
Dissection of anthropophagous
anthropophagous = anthrop (man; mankind; human) + o + phag (eat) + -ous (suffix for adjective, full of, of)
anthropophagous = eating human flesh
anthropophagous = feeding on human flesh
Now Repeat my Dissection
anthropophagous = eating human flesh
anthropophagous = feeding on human flesh
Important roots for this word:
anthrop
phag
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
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