vor-, vora-, -vore, -vorous, -vores, -vora, -vory
(Latin: eat, eating; consume, consuming; ingest, ingesting; devour, devouring; feeding on)
voracious
1. Consuming, or eager to consume, great amounts of food, ravenous.
2. Marked by an unsatisfied appetite for an activity or a pursuit, greedy; such as, a voracious reader or a voracious writer.
2. Marked by an unsatisfied appetite for an activity or a pursuit, greedy; such as, a voracious reader or a voracious writer.
voraciousness
voracity
The quality or character of being voracious; greediness in eating.
xylivore
Feeding on or consuming wood.
xylivorous
Eating wood as is done by some insects.
xylivory
zoosuccivorous, zoosuccivore, zoosuccivory
1. A reference to organisms that feed on liquid secretions of animals.
2. An organism that sucks the blood or other fluid from animal bodies.
3. Feeding on decaying animal matter.
2. An organism that sucks the blood or other fluid from animal bodies.
3. Feeding on decaying animal matter.
Related "eat, eating" word units: brycho-; esculent-; esophago-; glutto-; phago-.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "food, nutrition, nourishment": alimento-; broma-; carno-; cibo-; esculent-; sitio-; tropho-; Eating Crawling Snacks; Eating: Carnivorous-Plant "Pets"; Eating: Folivory or Leaf Eaters; Eating: Omnivorous.
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