bibliophage

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who loves to read books; a bookworm. figuratively
    — Janet loved reading. She was a real bibliophage.
  2. A creature that consumes books’ physical contents.
    — Once inside, they begin to mine; there may be apparently nothing wrong outside, but when you open the book you find a hollow filled with insects, which have eaten almost all the letterpress, up to the margins. By keeping the shelves away from the walls and giving a little attention to wormy volumes, the Library may be easily freed from this kind of Bibliophage.

词形变化

bibliophages plural

词汇关系

近义词
bibliophile bibliovore book lover bookworm librophile librovore
相关词
bibliophagous bibliophagy

词源

From biblio- + -phage, from Ancient Greek βῐ́βλος (bĭ́blos, “book”) and φαγεῖν (phageîn, “to eat”).
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