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mycophagy

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my·coph·a·gous  (m-kf-gs)
adj.
Fungivorous.
my·copha·gy (--j) n.
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Noun1.mycophagy - the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild)
eating, feeding - the act of consuming food
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May teamed with Andrew Claridge, an ecologist with the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, to review the evidence of mycophagy -- consumption of fungi -- and found that 37 species of native Australian mammals have been known to dine on fungal matter.
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