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

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

forbivorous
Feeding on broad-leaved plants.
forbivory (adjective)
formicivore
1. Feeding mainly, or exclusively, on ants.
2. Eating ants as the primary or only source of food.
formicivorous
formivore
Eating ants either exclusively or as a supplement to food consumption.
formivorous
frondivore
frondivorous
Feeding or eating leaves.
frondivory (adjective)
fructivore
fructivorous
1. Existing on a diet composed of fruit.
2. Eating fruit.
fructivory (adjective)
frugivora
The fruit bat; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats that live on fruits.
frugivore
1. Any chiefly fruit-eating organism or creature.
2. An animal, such as a chimpanzee or fruit bat, that feeds primarily on fruit.
frugivorous
1. Eating or feeding on fruit.
2. Feeding on fruit; such as, birds and other animals.

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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