vor-, vora-, -vore, -vorous, -vores, -vora, -vory

(Latin: eat, eating; consume, consuming; ingest, ingesting; devour, devouring; feeding on)

exudativorous
exudativory (adjective)
ferrivore
Feeding on iron.
ferrivorous
ferrivory (adjective)
fimivore
Eating dung.
fimivorous
fimivory (adjective)
florivore
florivorous
Eating flowers or plant species.
florivory (adjective)
folivore
folivorous
To eat leaves or leaf eating.

Many leaves contain a high proportion of hard-to-digest cellulose and relatively little energy. For this reason, folivorous mammals tend to have long digestive tracts and slow metabolisms. Many have the help of symbiotic bacteria to release the nutrients in their diets.

Folivorous creatures eating leaves. The folivorous creatures eating out.

folivory (adjective)
forbivore

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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