-vore

See also: vore

English

Etymology

From the Latin vorare (“to devour”).

Suffix

-vore

An organism, usually animal, identified by its kind of diet.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -vore

general diets

carnivore - meat only
herbivore - plants only
omnivore - plants and meat

specific diets

corallivore - corals
detritivore - decomposing material
folivore, frondivore - leaves
fructivore, frugivore - fruit
graminivore - grass
granivore - seeds
humivores - dark brown part of soil that consists of decomposed plants and animals (compost).
insectivore - insects
limnivore - mud
lithovore - rocks and minerals
molluscivore - molluscs
mucivore - plant juices
mycovore - fungi
nectarivore - nectar
palynivore - pollen
piscivore - fish
saprovore - dead or decaying matter
sanguinivore - blood
spongivore - sea sponges
cytovore - Cytoplasma (Cellular)

Related terms

-vorous

Translations

an animal identified by their kind of diet

Arabic: آكِل m (ʔākil)
Catalan: -vor m
Greek: -φάγος (el) m or f (-fágos), -βόρος (el) m or f (-vóros)
Hungarian: -evő (hu)
Old English: -ǣta m
Portuguese: -voro
Swedish: -ätare (sv) c

See also

-phagy

References

Molles, Manuel C., Jr. (1999) Ecology: Concepts and Applications, International Edition edition, Dubuque: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., →DOI, →ISBN, page 510
Smith, Robert Leo with Thomas M. Smith (2002) Elements of Ecology, Fourth edition, Singapore: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 567
San Diego Zoo on "vores"

Anagrams

Over, over, over-, rove

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin -vorus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vɔʁ/
Homophone: -vores

Suffix

-vore m (masculine and feminine, plural -vores)

Derived terms

French terms suffixed with -vore

Further reading

“-vore”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯o.re/, [u̯ɔrɛ]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vo.re/, [vore] (stressed on the antepenult)

Suffix

-vore

vocative masculine singular of -vorus

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