In 1917, a French-Canadian microbiologist, Félix d’Hérelle, was the first to discover that bacteriophages — from the Ancient Greek phagein, to devour, and bacteria — destroyed the bacteria ...

Such snakes are called ophiophagus (from Greek ophios meaning "snake" and phagein meaning "to eat") and indeed prey upon other serpentine reptiles. King Cobras are perhaps the most famous of this ...