-phagy
1.
a combining form meaning “eating,” “devouring” that specified by the initial element, especially as a practice or habit:
allotriophagy; anthropophagy.
Also,
-phagia
.
Origin
<
Greek
-phagia;
see
-phage
,
-y
3
British Dictionary definitions for
-phagy
-phagy
combining form
1.
indicating an eating or devouring:
anthropophagy
Word Origin
from Greek
-phagia;
see
phago-
-phagy
in Medicine
-phagy
suff.
Variant of
-phagia
.