eating roots, Root-eaters
eating roots, Arist. HA 595a16, PA 662b14; οἱ Ῥ. Root-eaters, name of an Ethiopian tribe in D.S. 3.23, Str. 16.4.9.
The corpus record
ῥιζοφά̆γ-ος
rizophagos
eating roots
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.