different between horsemeat vs hippophagy

English

From horse +? meat.

horsemeat (usually uncountable, plural horsemeats)

The meat from a horse.
- 2015, Ian Marcouse, Andrew Hammond, Nigel Watson, Edexcel Business A Level Year 1: Including AS
  In January 2013, supermarkets were hit by an extraordinary scandal as it emerged that foods made of processed 'beef' actually contained horsemeat.

hippo- +? -phagy

hippophagy (uncountable)

The eating of horsemeat.
- 1879, George Fleming (ed.), The Veterinary Journal
  In Berlin, as in Paris, hippophagy appears to be on the increase. At the present time as many as twenty horses a day are cut up for food.

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