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Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal.

The eating of plants.

A group of herbivorous marsupials including the kangaroos and their allies. -- Po*eph"a*gous, a.

See Pauhaugen.

Eating, or subsisting on, many kinds of food; as, polyphagous animals.

The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.

Attractive; persuasive. J. Morley.

A necromancer. [R.]

Of or pertaining to Pythagoras (a Greek philosopher, born about 582 b. c.), or his philosophy. The central thought of the Pythagorean philosophy is the idea of number, the recognition of the numerical and mathematical relations of things. Encyc. Brit. Pythagorean proposition (Geom.), the theorem that the square describ…

The doctrines of Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans. As a philosophic school Pythagoreanism became extinct in Greece about the middle of the 4th century [B. C.]. Encyc. Brit.

See Pythagorean, a.

The doctrines taught by Pythagoras.

To speculate after the manner of Pythagoras.

A division of marsupials. The wombat is the type.

Feeding on roots; root-eating.

Eating, or subsisting on, filth.

One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon dacaying animal and vegetable substances; a carrion beetle.

Feeding on carrion.

A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.

Any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.