mycophage
(ˈmaɪkəʊfeɪdʒ)
[f. myco- + -phage.]
One who or that which eats fungi.
| 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Dec. 742/1 Why do the English and the Celts fear all but the cultivated mushroom, while Slavs and Italians are enthusiastic mycophages? 1965 B. E. Freeman tr. Vandel's Biospeleology xix. 328 It is generally impossible to classify a cavernicole as a humiphage, xylophage, mycophage, coprophage, or necrophage. |