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

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

frugivorousness
frugivory (adjective)
fucivore
fucivorous
Feeding or subsisting on seaweed and related sea and ocean foods.
fucivory (adjective)
fumivorous (adjective), more fumivorous, most fumivorous
Relating to feeding, consuming, or living on smoke.
fungivore
Anything that feeds mainly or exclusively on fungi.
fungivorous
Feeding mainly or exclusively on fungi.
fungivory (adjective)
A reference to feeding on or in fungi.
gallivore
gallivorous
Feeding on galls.

Galls are an abnormal growth in plants usually produced in response to microbial or fungal infection, or to attack by insects, mites, and other invertebrates.

gallivory (adjective)
graminivore
graminivorous
Eating grass (or feeding on grass).
graminivory (adjective)

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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