autophage

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who or that which eats itself.
    — Racism's link to the franchise makes democracy an autophage that threatens to eat itself because citizens generally become anxious about losing their right to vote.
  2. A rocket that consumes parts of its own structure as fuel.

词形变化

autophages plural

词汇关系

相关词
autophagous autophagy

词源

From auto- + -phage.
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