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

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

pollenivore
pollenivorous
Eating or feeding on pollen.
pollenivory (adjective)
pollenophagous
Refers to feeders on pollen produced by plant stamens.

Certain pollenophagous insects cause more severe damage by clearing a path to the stamens than by collecting pollen. Pollen constitutes an important food resource for numerous beneficial insects.

pollinivore
pomivorous
Feeding on apples.
pupivorous
1. Devouring the pupae of other insects; such as, parasites or other insects.
2. Living as a parasite, and consuming, larva and pupa in their developing stages as insects.
quercivorous
Feeding on the leaves of oak trees.
radicivorous
The eating of roots.
radicivory (adjective)
ranivore
A creature that consumes (eats) frogs.
ranivorous
Feeding on frogs.
ranivory (adjective)
Descriptive of frog eating; frog-eating.
reptilivorous
The eating of reptiles.
sanguinivorous
1. Subsisting on or consuming blood.
2. A blood sucker.

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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