autophagous /ö-toˈfə-gəs/

1. Self-devouring
2. (of a bird) capable of feeding itself from the moment of hatching

autophāˈgia or autophagy /-ə-ji/ noun

1. Sustenance by self-absorption of the tissues of the body, eg during starvation (medicine)
2. In a lysosome, the intracellular digestion of material of the cell (biochemistry)
3. Eating or biting of part of one's own body (psychiatry)

• egg beaters
• egg-binding
• egg-bird
• egg-birds
• egg-bound
• egg box
• egg-box
• egg boxes
• egg capsule
• egg capsules
• egg case
• egg cases
• egg cell
• egg cells
• egg-cosies
• egg-cosy
• egg cream
• egg creams
• eggcup
• eggcups
• egg custard
• egg dance
• egg dances
• egged
• egger