Definition of "coprophagous" []

• Feeding on excrement: coprophagous beetles. (adjective)

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• "And here I never thought one would be able to associate the word coprophagous with a restaurant—much less a Chinese restaurant."
• "We describe the first case of an obligate predatory dung beetle and contrast its behaviour and morphology with those of its coprophagous sympatric congeners."
• "Besides the guy is probably a secretly coprophagous"