Phage Definition

fāj
phages
noun
phages
Webster's New World
A bacteriophage.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
suffix
One that eats.
Macrophage.
American Heritage
affix
One that eats or destroys (something specified)
Bacteriophage.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Phage

Noun

Singular:
phage
Plural:
phages

Origin of Phage

  • Ancient Greek φαγητόν (phageton, “food, consumption"), from φαγεῖν (phagein) aorist of ἐσθίω (esthiō), ἔδω (edō, “to eat, to consume").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Greek -phagos eating from phagein to eat bhag- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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